[linux-help] sendmail questions

[Bruce Bales <bbales@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have Red Hat 6.2 on four boxes.  On bootup, two of them take about two 
seconds to finish "Starting Sendmail."  The other two take a full two minutes.  
They always say "OK" after their respective startup times.  I don't know if I 
am using sendmail or not.

The "start" section of S80Sendmail under /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/ looks the same in 
each machine; it does a makemap hash (whatever that means) on four files in 
/etc/mail/ and these four files all look the same.

Question 1: Do I need sendmail if I use Netscape for email?
Question 2: What could cause the two-minute startup of sendmail?

Thanks in advance, bruce


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