[KLUG Members] Sendmail questions

[Adam Williams]

>   I am current researching a problem a client is having with Sendmail and
> one of the products I support.. unfortunately I have never setup sendmail or
> any other e-mail system so I am not sure what to look for. They are using
> Redhat 7.3 and Sendmail 8.11.6. I am setting up a duplicate environment and

Yikes, thats an old version of sendmail

> getting their MC file to see how they are setup. The big problem is
> everything I have read leads me to believe sendmail is more of a relay point
> then an actual e-mail server.. is this correct or am I just getting
> confused??

Sendmail is an SMTP server, so is it an "actual e-mail server"?  It
depends what you mean.  If you mean sending mail, yea.  If you mean
connecting and reading mail (IMAP or POP) then no, something else does
that part.

The easiest way to tell how it behaves is to send a message to it and
watch /var/log/maillog. It will record what it does with the message.