Thanks for the prompt reply Jeffrey. I had done the replacement of sendmail with the xmail versions. I followed your handbook to build my original server and figured as it worked, I'd do the same with this one.
Am I right in saying that I should just disable the sendmail startup completely and just rely on xmail? If so this sounds like a lovely clean solution. Stuart Smith PS: the Handbook may be a few years old, and it does have a couple of typos in it. But its still the best that I've found and I made a PDF of it for when I need it and its fallen off the web. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey Laramie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 10:45 PM Subject: [xmail] Re: problems getting sendmail to start > On Wednesday 01 October 2008 07:03:41 stuart smith wrote: >> I've just installed xmail 1.25 on a Fedora 9 64 bit system. This is to >> replace my 12 year old system running Fedora 6 and xmail 1.23. I've >> configured it using the Xmail Handbook by Jeffrey Laramie. After a >> reboot, >> the system initialisation doesn't get past sendmail. Luckily sshd is >> running by that time so I can log into the system. What I find is that >> the >> startup script /etc/rc5.d/S80sendmail is still running. As it doesn't >> complete, none of the subsequent startup runs. >> >> Any thoughts? > > FYI I haven't updated that handbook in years so it is a bit out of date. I > assume you replaced the sendmail daemon as described here? > > http://ubaight.com/index.php?section=6#SendmailScript > > I haven't set up an XMail system in awhile, but XMail starts it's version > of > sendmail automatically and IIRC you should disable the sendmail startup > script. Also, be careful when you update your server. In the past updating > some mail related packages has re-installed sendmail replacing the XMail > sendmail daemon and resetting the sendmail/postfix init scripts to start > up. > > Jeff > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
