Re: [Exim] exim emergency -- please help!

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Author: Marc MERLIN
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To: Mark Edwards
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] exim emergency -- please help!
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 12:36:37PM -0800, Mark Edwards wrote:
> When I try to fly exim, I get a these types of errors:
>
> /usr/sbin/sendmail: parse error near `\n' [2]
> /usr/sbin/sendmail: command not found: Envelope-to: [2]
> /usr/sbin/sendmail: command not found: Delivery-date: [3]
> /usr/sbin/sendmail: command not found: Received: [4]


You accidentally redirected the Email to your binary
as in:

cat /tmp/mail > /usr/sbin/sendmail
instead of
cat /tmp/mail | /usr/sbin/sendmail

You need to restore your exim binary

Marc
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