sendmail is the best known of the Unix/Linux Mail Transport Agents or MTAs.
Others are exim and qmail. They take e-mail messages created by user-level
programs like pine and elm (called MUAs generically), figure out where they
go, and either deliver them to the MTA on another host or to the local
delivery agent on your host.
Does sendmail really hang the system, or does it just cause the boot process
to seem to pause for 2-3 minutes? If it's the second, that usually means you
have sendmail set up to use DNS and it is unable to connect to a nameserver.
If it's the first, I don't know.
At 09:39 PM 9/21/99 -0400, John P. Marr wrote:
> I have been looking at the sendmail manual in RH Linux 6.0 trying to
>figure out just what it does. As far as I can understand, it only sends
>pre-formatted messages somewhere. Could someone please explain to me just
>what sendmail does, and why when I boot linux now the system hangs at
>sendmail? Could it be because I changed the host name or something along
>these lines?
>
>Any comments are welcomed
>
>John
>
>
>
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