jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (05/06/91)
(Note the Followup-To.)
In article <1991May3.171716.7206@bnlux1.bnl.gov> aharon@bnlls1.nsls.bnl.gov (Aharon Friedman) writes:
I am running sendmail on an HP 400t running HPUX 7.03. I can send mail
to other machines on the network, but my machine does not respond to
incoming SMTP mail from other machines. Any ideas?
Yes, it sounds to me like you aren't starting up a sendmail in daemon
mode using the "-bd" flag in your /etc/rc file (or in some other file
that runs when your system reboots). Something like
"/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q30m", which tells sendmail to run in daemon
mode and to try to resend messages in the queue every 30 minutes.
See the man page for sendmail or the documentation that comes with it
(or that might be available in /usr/doc on your system, or that is
available in the bsd archives on gatekeeper.dec.com, or that is
available with any sendmail source distribution) for more information.
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