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>Two questions occur often.</P
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>5.1. <A
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>Why does sendmail give the error, <TT
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>5.1. </B
>Why does sendmail give the error, <TT
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>sh: wrapper not available for sendmail programs</TT
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>smrsh</B
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>Why will Red Hat not process my mc file?</P
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>For some reason, Red Hat does not include the necessary files to process mc files. According to <TT
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>sendmail-cf</TT
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>rpm -i sendmail-8.11.0-8.src.rpm</B
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>
Also in the default <TT
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>/etc/mail/sendmail.mc</TT
> file, there is a slight syntax error. (The beginning single quotes on one line slant in the wrong direction.) The line that reads
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After these two changes, the new <TT
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