I too have been trying to grope my way through sendmail. Yes it was
installed with my system at /usr/sbin, but there is no file .fetchmailrc or
sendmail.cf
I wonder if I shouldn't download a fresh copy and (re)install it
David
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To: Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: installing sendmail
> 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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