can't find sendmail

[wurmy]

i want to set up a mail server but...i can't find the sendmail rpm. i'm running mandrake 7.2 and when i open package manager or rpmdrake it is nowhere to be found, and i can't seem to find it on the discs either...anyone have any ideas where it might be hiding? i'm assuming it should already be in here somewhere...

[Derango]

Try going to www.rpmfind.net (http://www.rpmfind.net) and doing a search for it

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[wurmy]

downloaded the rpm for sendmail. at the command line i ran rpm -i sendmail-8.11.0-3mdk.src.rpm, when it went to the next line, but it still says that sendmail package is not installed. so i opened package manager, opened the sendmail rpm and clicked install...and it still says not installed...why is that?

[PLBlaze]

You can't install *.src.rpm because it needs to be compiled first.Try rpm --rebuild *.src.rpm and once it's done install the regular rpm.Hope this helps.

[wurmy]

is it supposed to creat a regular rpm file in the same directory? after i put in that command the last line said:
var/tmp/rpm-tmp.53274: patch: command not found
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.53274 (%prep)
i don't know if it worked or not.

[PLBlaze]

Well, once you issue the rebuild option from rpm, it does unpack the source tarball in /usr/src/<distro name>/SOURCES and *.spec file in /usr/src/<distro name>/SPECS then it proceeds to compile rpm package...Once it's done then you go to /usr/src/<distro name>/RPMS/i386 directory and install newly built package.

You are missing patch utility that's why rpm quits.I'd suggest to look on your Linux cd for developement rpm's and install them.Once again hope this helps.

[bytemare]

mandrake installs postfix instead of sendmail, I'm not sure why. Just remove the postfix packages and install the sendmail packages from the CD.

[wurmy]

where on the cd? i couldn't find it....

[bytemare]

I found it here:

/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/sendmail-8.11.0-3mdk.i586.rpm

[wurmy]

when i try to run Build in the sendmail directory it keeps saying after every "Configuratin: " line ERROR: Cannot locate an M4 program.

do i need to install something else first?

[bytemare]

I never had to run build, I just install it and use one of the sample .cf template files and I'm done....

[wurmy]

i'm not sure how to install it ...this is in the README file in the sendmail directory..

By far, the easiest way to compile sendmail is to use the "Build"
script:

sh Build
but when i do that i get the M4 error....how else can i do it?

[wurmy]

happens when i run make as well.

[bytemare]

What are you trying to do exactly?

If you installed the sendmail rpm, then it's installed and you don't need to compile anything. It's probably already running with default configuration, which usually is fine. I think they include a couple of other .cf files. You can mv those files to sendmail.cf for other configurations.

[wurmy]

well when i run rpm -q sendmail it says it is not installed...is there another way i can check to make sure it is/isn't?

[bytemare]

I think it means that it's not installed. what happens when you do rpm -i <path-to-sendmail>?