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Re: Sendmail

Raymond Rusk (rrusk@UVic.CA)
Tue, 22 Jul 1997 14:33:34 -0700 (PDT)

Joel Erickson wrote:
> I've been having trouble with sendmail ever since I bought a pentium box
> and installed Linux on it; I wonder if anyone might have good advice. I
> just have a simple configuration, a dynamic PPP link with RedHat 4.0; so I
> need sendmail to queue mail when the link is down, and otherwise to mail
> it off. No matter what I do, something always seems to be broken in the
> configuration. I can send mail, and recieve manually via pop, but weird
> things happen, like sendmail sleeping for a minute when I try and start
> it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Alternately, is there a better
> solution for single user systems?

Take a look at http://www.completeis.com/sendmail/sendmail.cgi for
assistance configuring sendmail. Most recently, I have been using
smail. It works fine and hasn't received as much attention from the
hacker community.

> Thank you,
> Joel Erickson

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