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hello to all,

I'm a newbie to configuring sendmail. I have a solaris 9 server that is also set up as a NIS master server. My 1st question is how do properly set up sendmail to work in conjuntion with NIS users, so I need to set up sendmail in a certain way or can I just set it up normally. Also what does the following error mean:

/usr/lib/sendmail: illegal option -- A

I get this when I start the sendmail daemon. Thanks to all that respond

This is telling you that the startup script (or the command you are running) has an illegal option - see the man page for legal options to the sendmail process.

As far as NIS, I don't believe there is anything special you have to do for sendmail to work with it - anything that was set up to allow NIS to work as far as logging into the server will be enough for sendmail to work (this is assuming you are talking about NIS and not NIS + )

Thanks RTM thanks. This has been a big help. I have one more question if you dont mind, How do I go about making sendmail function as an IMAP server to work in conjunction with NIS? The users are able to logon to the server but when they point their respective email clients to it they are getting connection refused. This new server is a replacement server and I have setup sendmail exactly the same. I keep running over all of Sendmail's config files but I am stumped.

Sorry, but I don't know the answer to that - have never set up a imap proxy on a server (althought I do know it seems to be a separate package on Solaris - at least on a couple of boxes that use it that I do have access to - can't tell you much else about it.)

And going back to your original question, if you are running Solaris 9, there should be a -A option for sendmail (this was new for Solaris 9 and 10). What version of sendmail are you running?

You need to install an IMAP server. sendmail is a mail server. It accepts incoming mail and processes outgoing mail. If you telnet to the imap port (grep imap /etc/services; could be 143, or 220 depending on what version of the imap spec is being used) on the working system, you probably will get a header that should tell you what package is being maintained on that server.

Carl