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From: gatesl@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Lee Gates)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: send-mail (what does it do?)
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Date: 6 Mar 91 21:30:14 GMT
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While monitoring my processes one day, I noticed that ps reported that I was
running a process called send-mail.  I am familiar with sendmail and unix,
so I sought after the man pages... even grepped all the man pages for the
string send-mail.  I would like to know what part of sendmail send-mail does.

The reason I am interested is because I hadn't send any mail for over an
hour, and didn't have any mail in the mailq at the time.  Initially, I was
suspecting some sort of security breach, with a setuid command, but I
haven't found the same process happenning.

thanx in advance
lee