[KLUG Members] Sendmail, Majordomo, and Redhat 8

[Robert G. Brown]

"Jeremy Leonard" <Lists@elite4god.com> wrote:
>From: "Robert G. Brown" <bob@acm.org>
>><lists@elite.elite4god.com> wrote:
>>>The only reason I'm changing everything is because there is no backup!
>>>I've only ever worked with RedHat.
>>OK, so what yuo're doing is replacing the slackware system with a redhat
>>system, so you know what's going on and feel more confident about maintaining
>>it? I think some background is in order.
>
>You are correct. That's why I chose RH. I wouldn't just willy-nilly change a
>system. 
OK, that's fine.

>Back ground on me is. I'm a CNE, and an MCSE....
OK.

>> >I've never had to change anything to get sendmail to work on the Internet.
>> I don't understand. For years, Red Hat has installed sendmail...
>I've used RedHat 5.2, 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.3

>Older versions needed configuring however since 7x I haven't realy needed to
>do anything other than create users. In previous versions I used linuxconf
>which doesn't exist in RH anymore.
Since your last configuration work, have you done upgrades or installs from
scratch? RHS still ships sendmail so it must be configured (regardless of the 
tool used) before it can be used for mail service beyond the localhost, unless
we're talking esclusively about rec3iving mail...

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