[linux-help] Re: sendmail questions

["Abdul Basit" <basit@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.

check /etc/hosts for proper localhost entry... it must be a domain name
problem

>
> 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?

Not really , you can use your service provider's SMTP server.

> Question 2: What could cause the two-minute startup of sendmail?

sendmail is generally comes configured by default with every/linux dist.

> Thanks in advance, bruce



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