On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, admin at lctn.org wrote:
> I have a school mail server on a Centos 4.2 box that has been running 
> fine for almost a year. We haven't made any changes on it for many 
> months. Today I got a call from a staff member saying no one could 
> retrieve or send email.  We relay the mail to this server after scanning 
> for spam. Nothing has been changed on that server either.

<..>

> Failed to start sendmail :
> Starting sendmail: [  OK  ]
> Starting sm-client: exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete
> option -L
> [FAILED]
>
> Any idea what to do here?

Sounds like someone installed Exim.

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