[CentOS] Mail[x] / Sendmail - CentOS 3

Alan Hodgson ahodgson at simkin.ca
Thu Aug 25 21:44:46 UTC 2005


On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 02:14:45PM -0700, Ken Godee wrote:
> Ok, I'm no mail[x]/sendmail expert,
> But the "DEFAULT" installation of mail[x]/sendmail
> WILL NOT work unless you start sendmail.
> It used to work without starting sendmail, but not anymore.

Possibly it had "send immediately" turned on and is now defaulting
to queue-only?  In any event, with no queue runners, it never would
have worked "right", in that any mail with delivery problems would never
get retried without a queue runner.

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