How can i start sendmail?

[Manuales]

how can i start sendmail?

sendmail: accepting connections on port 25

thanks.

[Manuales]

i tried as follows:
cd /sbin/init.d/
./sendmail stop
No sendmail server running
sendmail stopped
./sendmail start

(nothing happens)

unix02:/etc/mail->mailq
Mail Queue (4 requests)
--Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
VAA01237 (no control file)
VAA01232 (no control file)
VAA02344 (no control file)
VAA02559 (no control file)

what could be happening?
the syslog.log nothing says about this ...

please let me know.
thanks.

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

Go to the /etc/rc.config.d directory and check the mailservs file configuration, please see:

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[Aneesh Mohan]

Hi,

Add a record to /etc/hosts reflecting the exchange servers IP address and name.
10.10.1.36

- Update a record in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf to include the Exchange servers name, in the file search for the following line then add your Exchange server name after DS.
# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DS

- Restart sendmail:
/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

- If you already haven't, you may need to configure your DNS so when you send to outside addresses it can resolve the name. Thats just a matter of adding your DNS server to /etc/hosts and adding a record to /etc/resolv.conf.

For checking :

sendmail -d8.99 -d38.99 abc@yahoo.com