...sendmail info for presentation: Uses port number 25 Start and Stop service with: ALL=/sbin/service/sendmail start|stop (What Matrona had on his presentation) Start: /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30m (What I found on internet) Stop: kill `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid` (What I found on internet) configuration file path: /etc/mail/sendmail.cf Command to see what is in the mail queue: /usr/bin/mailq Command to test SMTP: telnet mail.example.net 25 Path for mail log: /var/log/maillog Command to verify sendmail is running: telnet localhost 25 how to install: Download and extract files from the sendmail website (sendmail.org) cd to where sendmail source code extracted and enter command: sh Build Confirm there are no errors and enter command: sh Build install sendmail binary should now be installed. how to configure: Create a .mc configuration file or download a sample cd to cf/cf directory. copy .mc configuration file to directory as sendmail.mc Enter command: sh Build sendmail.cf to generate sendmail.cf Enter command: sh Build install-cf Check /etc/mail for the following files: local-host-names, relay-domains, aliases, access If everything is there you can now start sendmail. What is sendmail?: "Sendmail is a general purpose internetwork email routing facility that supports many kinds of mail-transfer and -delivery methods, including the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) used for email transport over the Internet." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendmail ...
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