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From: schinagl@sztms.tu-graz.ac.at (Hermann Schinagl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Weird sendmail behavior
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 10:39:09 GMT
Organization: Graz University of Technology
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On 17 Jun 1997 17:26:20 -0600, mfuhr@dimensional.com (Michael Fuhr) wrote:

>-snip-
>
>> I haven't changed /etc/aliases or sendmail.cf from their default setups.
>> What could have caused this?  (I hung up and reconnected, and it was
>> fine.)
>
>Are you sure no person or program has mucked with /etc/sendmail.cf?
>There should be a line that starts "Mlocal", but from the error it
>looks like yours is "Mocal".  Try "grep ocal /etc/sendmail.cf" and see
>what you get.
>

Well, there is another pitfall in sendmail.cf. If you change
the space between the left hand (LHS) side and the right hand side
(RHS) of a line in the sendmail.cf into, lets say TABs, sendmail
gets crazy.

This is a major pitfall, because you don't see the difference
bewteen TABs and spaces in some editors!!!