sendmail problem

Hi,

I am having some problems with sendmail.....

> sendmail mail@domain.com ---- doesnt work
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 0: cannot open: No such file or directory

> /usr/sbin/sendmail mail@domain.com ----- doesnt work
(it doesnt send out the mail)

> /usr/sbin/sendmail -v mail@domain.com ------ only this works.

Here's the content of /etc/mail/mailer.conf file:
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/mail/mailer.conf,v 1.2 1999/12/29 18:24:06 peter Exp $
#
# Execute the "real" sendmail program, named /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
#
sendmail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
send-mail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
mailq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
newaliases /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail

Can someone help me in figuring out what the problem is??

(I am a complete newbie to BSD )

Amit

The sendmail binary generally runs in the background waiting for messages to process - as such you don't run the 'sendmail' binary from the commandline unless for example you're trying to debug a problem with the sendmail configuration.

To just send a message from the commandline, just do:

mail mail@domain.com

and you should be prompted for the subject (hit enter to end subject) and the message (hit ctrl-d or just enter a single '.' on it's own to end the message).

An example:

[6:33:12] munk@users /home/munk# mail example@example.com
Subject: test mail
test
.
EOT

You can then check the mail was sent successfully by typing:

tail /var/log/maillog

and you should see an entry for the mail you just sent.