On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Craig White wrote: I have no idea why but after 3 attempts to send a test message to myself the fourth attempt was successful (after I posted my question...of course). Thanks for your reply. -- Bob Holtzman "If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer"

Aldo Foot wrote: Actually, if you delete the .m4 files in /usr/share/sendmail-cf or delete /etc/mail/Makefile, sendmail.cf can't be buggered. The startup script for sendmail does a "make" using /etc/mail/Makefile (which in turn uses the .m4 files from /usr/share/sendmail-cf). However, if you're going to use sendmail instead of one of the many replacements, you really should learn how m4 works and bugger the .m4 files. I'd also recommend you buy the "bat" book from O'Reilly ("Sendmail, Fourth Edition" by Bryan Costales, Claus Assmann, George Jansen, Gregory Shapiro). Probably the definitive book on how sendmail works and how to "futz" with it. "Don't sendmail without it!" http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510299/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer rps2(a)nerd.com - - Hosting Consulting, Inc. - - - - There are only 10 kinds of people in the world -- those who - - understand binary and those who don't - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Robert Holtzman wrote: You might try setting sendmail up with webmin, it's much more tractable and makes sure that things are consistent. You can install webmin with 'yum install webmin' I think. Webmin uses your browser to communicate on port 10000 so after installation you can surf to <yourhostname>.<yourdomainname>.<your TLD>:10000 and log in as root. I don't recommend editing sendmail.cf or any other sendmail files manually. It's a can of worms and it's easy to break sendmail that way. John Cornelius