Sendmail comes with all linux distributions so it probably is
installed. just start it with /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30 -om.
Also make sure you have a localdomains line in your .fetchmailrc file and
look at /etc/sendmail.cf and the files in /etc/mail
On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Richard Adams wrote:
> Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 07:30:08 +0000
> From: Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: hackenbush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: installing sendmail
>
> On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, hackenbush wrote about, installing sendmail:
> > I've just set up LinucPPC for the first time. I decided to use the
> > Pine mail client. Got that configured and Fetchmail to access my ISP's
> > mail port. But when it came to configuring sendmail to actually
> > deliver the mail to my own Inbox I hit a brick wall.
> > I'm not even sure if I'm just barking up the wrong tree. Do I need all
> > three programmes running at all? When I ran just Fetchmail and Pine I
> > got SMTP error messages when Fetchmail tried to download my mail. I
> > guessed the missing link was Sendmail.
> >
> > BUT...getting Sendmail installed and running has lost me. I've read
> > numerous manual pages and they haven't helped.
> > Is there an easy way that I'm missing?
>
> Are you sure sendmail is not installed on the system,?? try
> 'whereis sendmail' or 'locate sendmail' locate will show ALL sendmail files
> and not just the binary.
>
> Normally speaking if the binary is installed and you have the default
> /etc/sendmail.conf installed then really all you need to do is simply start
> sendmail with;
>
> 'sendmail -bd -q 15m'
>
> If there are errors then place the errors in a mail to the list if you
> cannot solve them yourself.
>
> AFAIK sendmail is included in all linux distro's, check your source medium
> if you dont have sendmail installed.
>
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
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