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Setting up Sendmail

You can either setup sendmail by modifying the /etc/sendmail.cf configuration file, or by using the mailconf command. Start up linuxconf and see if the mailconf module is turned on.

bash# linuxconf

From Linuxconf select the Control tab in GUI mode or scroll down to the Control section in text mode. Select Configure Linuxconf Modules. A lot of these look interesting, but the one we want is the mailconf module. Make sure that one is selected, then exit linuxconf.

bash# mailconf

Next start mailconf. Configure your machine to present mail as from itself. This is either in the basic information section or the configure section. That is about all you need to do to configure sendmail. Now exit and type this command:

bash# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart

If that command fails at shutting down mail, then you might need to see if the mail server is starting at startup. You will most likely get one of the two following situations:

bash# chkconfig --list sendmail
sendmail       	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off

Which is a good sign. Or:

bash# chkconfig --list sendmail
sendmail       	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off

Which is a also a good sign. If you get the second one you can use chkconfig to get your server to run regularly:

bash# chkconfig sendmail on

This should do the trick.


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Joseph Colton 2002-09-24