Configuring Sendmail; Installing Sendmail; Running Sendmail - Toshiba e-studio16 Administrator's Manual

Configuring Sendmail

Installing Sendmail

1 At first, you can check whether sendmail operates because your system is RPM based
Linux. RPM based Linux is RedHat, Turbo and etc.
Enter the following command:
$ rpm -q -a | grep sendmail
2 If sendmail was installed our system, the package name of sendmail is displayed.
If sendmail was not installed, you need to install it. Move to directory of sendmail
RPM package. And the following command run. You might need to be root by su
command and etc.
# rpm -ivh (a package name of sendmail)
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If this command finished running, installing of sendmail is completed.

Running Sendmail

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A Record and MX Record for this server are added to the DSN server.
2 Check "/etc/resolv.conf" to confirm your mail server is looking to DSN server correctly.
3 Check "/etc/hosts.allow" and "/etc/hosts.deny" to confirm whether your mail server is
having restricted SMTP. If the status is true, modify these files. The correct method is
written to the following online manual.
# man 5 hosts_access
4 To control sendmail, the following command run.
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail (start|stop|restart)
(Please select one of options in ( ).)
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