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My system:
- Sendmail 8.9.3
- AIX 4.3.3

Hi people,
I'm a first timer in setting sendmail up to connecting to a different
OS/mail server.

I'm trying to send and receive email through a Lotes mail server (NT)
for internal use, meaning it wont be connected to the Internet at the
moment.

However, I'm already stuck when I issue 'newaliases' right after
editing the /etc/aliases . And it shows the following message:

Warning: .cf file is out of date: sendmail AIX4.3/8.9.3 supports
version 8, .cf
file is version 6
WARNING: World writable directory /etc
dbm map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/aliases
WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/aliases
Cannot create database for alias file /etc/aliases: A system call
received a par
ameter that is not valid.      

What's the problem here?

Is sendmail even running? If the Notes server is handling SMTP, you're
supposed to disable the AIX sendmail daemon.

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- Kent
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Quote:> My system:
> - Sendmail 8.9.3
> - AIX 4.3.3

> Hi people,
> I'm a first timer in setting sendmail up to connecting to a different
> OS/mail server.

> I'm trying to send and receive email through a Lotes mail server (NT)
> for internal use, meaning it wont be connected to the Internet at the
> moment.

> However, I'm already stuck when I issue 'newaliases' right after
> editing the /etc/aliases . And it shows the following message:

> Warning: .cf file is out of date: sendmail AIX4.3/8.9.3 supports
> version 8, .cf
> file is version 6
> WARNING: World writable directory /etc
> dbm map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/aliases
> WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/aliases
> Cannot create database for alias file /etc/aliases: A system call
> received a par
> ameter that is not valid.

> What's the problem here?

It's a problem from /etc.
Look with ls -al , the rights of /etc should be rwxr-xr-x.

Regards, Jack van Bokstel