I have installed sendmail and sendmail-cf but when I go to compile my submit.mc it tries to go to a folder that doesn't exist. The cf.m4 file is in /usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4 but it wants to find it under the /usr/share/sendmail-cf/feature location. /usr/share/sendmail-cf/feature has no subfolders. I've uninstalled and reinstalled sendmail and sendmail-cf (using yum install so I get the dependencies) and no subfolder ever materializes under feature. I'm sure it's something incredibly basic that I'm overlooking. m4 is installed.

I've perused the other threads relating to sendmail and I'm still stumped.

rpm -qa |grep -i sendmail produces:
sendmail-8.14.4-8.el6.x86_64
sendmail-cf-8.14.4-8.el6.noarch

I'm using RHEL 6.3

The base submit.mc file looks as follows, with the domain information removed.

divert(-1)
divert(0)dnl
include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl
VERSIONID(`linux setup')dnl
MASQUERADE_AS(myhostname.mydomainname)dnl
FEATURE(allmasquerade)dnl
FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
define(`confCF_VERSION', `Submit')dnl
define(`__OSTYPE__',`')dnl dirty hack to keep proto.m4 from complaining
define(`_USE_DECNET_SYNTAX_', `1')dnl support DECnet
define(`confTIME_ZONE', `USE_TZ')dnl
define(`confDONT_INIT_GROUPS', `True')dnl
define(`confPID_FILE', `/var/run/sm-client.pid')dnl
FEATURE(`use_ct_file')dnl
FEATURE(`msp', `smtprelay.mydomainname')dnl

Then the compile instructions:
m4 /etc/mail/submit.mc > /etc/mail/submit.cf
service sendmail restart


Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Must be a configuration error as: "cannot open /usr/share/sendmail-cf/feature/.m4 no such file" is missing the actual m4 file name?..

I see the configuration issue as possible, I just don't see how to fix it. The feature folder doesn't contain any folders but plenty of .m4 files. I should also note the full error, which I omitted is: cannot open '/usr/share/sendmail-cf/feature/.m4' no such file": No such file or directory.

Maybe if you debug it may show clues. This should process but not overwrite:
halt on fatal error and show which files m4 reads from.

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Hmm. I went through it all again and uninstalled both sendmail rpms and installed the latest kernel update and now it will compile the file. I'm stumped but happy that it works and for the assistance. It does say, after i compile it, that the service (sendmail) is dead but subsys locked but I can keep working on that.

That's not the preferred of troubleshooting things but OK, if it works for you.


Check /var/log/{messages,maillog} for related errors, check if process is running ('pgrep -lf sendmail'), remove PID file from /.var/run, retry.