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<H4><font color="maroon">Mail for the Home Network</font></H4>
<H4><font color="maroon">Sendmail</font></H4>
<H1><font color="maroon">Starting Sendmail</font></H1>
<H4>By <a href="mailto:jpollman@bigfoot.com">JC Pollman</a>
and <a href="mailto:bill.mote@bigfoot.com">Bill Mote</a></H4></center>
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<p>Sendmail has a number of starting options. We will only give a brief
over view of the common commands. You should read the man page for further
information.
<p>-bd Run as a daemon.
Sendmail will fork and run in background listening on socket 25 for incoming
SMTP connections.
<p>-q[time] Processe saved messages in the
queue at given intervals. If time is omitted, process the queue
once. Time is given as a tagged number, with `s' being seconds,
`m' being minutes, `h' being hours, `d' being days,
and `w' being
<br>weeks. For example, `-q1h30m' or `-q90m'
would both set the timeout to one hour thirty minutes.
If time is specified, sendmail will run in background.
This option can be used safely with -bd
<p>So, if you set the time with the -q switch, do not be surprised if your
email is not delivered for a while. With Redhat, check the file: /etc/sysconfig/sendmail.
It will set the background/queue time so you only need to type:
<p><i>/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start [Enter] (or restart if
it is already running)</i>
<p>Make certain you do not try to start sendmail if it is already running
as you will not accomplish what you want.
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<center><H5>Copyright © 1999, JC Pollman and Bill Mote <BR>
Published in Issue 45 of <i>Linux Gazette</i>, September 1999</H5></center>
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