>>I'm upgrading some servers from rh7.3 -> CentOS 3 and >>have several scripts that use "mail" to relay >>messages to my mail server. >> >>Am I correct on the assumption that you now have >>to have sendmail running to use mail, where >>as previously you did not? Or am I missing something? >> > You're missing something. mail has always injected to the local MTA to > handle. 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. Somewhere between sendmail 8.11 and 8.12 things have changed, local mail sent, now gets put into the "/var/spool/clientmqueue" and will remain there until sendmail's "Client Queue Runner" comes around to process it. [root at cpq380-2 spool]# ps -A -fw | grep sendmail root 3822 1 0 13:26 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: accepting connections smmsp 3831 1 0 13:26 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: Queue runner at 01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue Now if there's a way to change the "default" behavior back, through a config change or sendmail param, I'm all ears?