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Sendmail does not work or does not accept my optional
arguments.

First make sure you have the correct path to sendmail which is /usr/sbin/sendmail

If you have the correct path, then you may need to know that sendmail is actually a symbolic link to another program called /usr/local/bin/mini_sendmail

Mini_sendmail accepts stdin and passes it on to an smtp server, behaving almost exactly like the real sendmail. The reason for using mini_sendmail is because you are inside a chrooted environment and you do not have access to the real sendmail. This type of circumstance was discussed publicly here.

Information about mini_sendmail can be obtained here or here.

Many times, what you are trying to do does not work because you are feeding options or flags to mini_sendmail that it does not understand like: -bm -f -oem -oi

Many times those options are unnecessary. Try just omitting them, calling mini_sendmail like this:

/usr/sbin/sendmail -t

User-Contributed Notes

anonymous -at- example.com
11-Oct-2006 14:33

Having extra arguments to sendmail as described above, or sending to an
address that doesn't exist, might result in errors in your logs
(/logs/error_log)  like this:

/usr/sbin/sendmail: unexpected response 550 to RCPT TO command

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