Mike James and sendmail are both mail servers. sendmail however can work locally without listening for connections ie. send mail instead only instead of recieving and then passing on.
When sendmail is running, it is holding port 25 to listen for send instructions, when James starts up, it is also requesting this port but because it is already in use (by sendmail) java returns the Bind Exception indicating it cannot access the port required. sendmail is used by many applicationa on *nix machines but all those applications access the command line (send only, no listening) part of sendmail. Therefore if you uninstall or deactivate the daemon part of sendmail but leave the command line version they can both live together: James will listen for send instructions while sendmail will only send from command line. Sendmail will send through it's own mechanisms and will connect to foreign hosts itself and will bypass James. James and sendmail are not REQUIRED together (your mail said "must work together"). They can/may work together as I have described. James can and does work on a computer without sendmail as it is a complete mail server within itself. I hope this answers your questions. Andrew On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 21:27, Michael Evans wrote: > Hello, > I'm having troubles that I believe are related to > sendmail. > > First let me ask a general question: > what is the relationship between sendmail and James? > > Now my 2 problems: > 1) Starting the James server won't work with sendmail > dameon running. > > Trying to start the server gives the following error: > java.net.BindException: Address already in use > at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketBind(Native > Method) > at > java.net.PlainSocketImpl.bind(PlainSocketImpl.java:408) > > sure enough, "losf -i :25" yields this: > sendmail 4078 root 4u IPv4 76721 TCP *:smtp > (LISTEN) > > Now, In a previous email, it was stated that sendmail > and james must work together. If I kill the sendmail > dameon, James will start up fine. I'm confused how > both statements can be true. > > Thanks in advance, > Mike > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax > http://http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- Andrew Timberlake Digital Design Development http://www.ddd.co.za mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 011 705 1737 082 415 8283 "If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
