mail

[Warren Togami]

That is probably due to sendmail being disabled by default, or the
"firewall" blocking it.  This is a good thing, because most Redhat users
have no business running sendmail (which contrary to the name is mainly for
receiving).  Sendmail, FTP and telnet servers are unnecessary security risks
for most home users and should never be enabled unless understand these
risks.

You can enable it easily in several different ways:
1) run "linuxconf" then find "Control Service Activity", set sendmail to
"Automatic".
2) run "setup" find "System Services" and activate sendmail.  Then
"/etc/init.d/sendmail start"
3) or "chkconfig --level 345 sendmail"  Then "/etc/init.d/sendmail start".

If none of these work, then you probably don't have sendmail installed.

----- Original Message -----
From: dave
To: Linux & Unix Advocates & Users
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 6:22 PM
Subject: [luau] mail


Fresh install of redhat 7.1, can send mail, can't receive, is something off
that needs to be turned on, host name and network info is all correct, mail
worked out of the box with a 7.0 install.


-Dave