Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:31042 comp.mail.sendmail:3157 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!jik From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Sendmail on HPUX Message-ID: Date: 5 May 91 21:52:58 GMT References: <1991Apr16.155130.2708@jsp.umontreal.ca> <1991May3.171716.7206@bnlux1.bnl.gov> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: aharon@bnlls1.nsls.bnl.gov's message of 3 May 91 17:17:16 GMT (Note the Followup-To.) In article <1991May3.171716.7206@bnlux1.bnl.gov> aharon@bnlls1.nsls.bnl.gov (Aharon Friedman) writes: I am running sendmail on an HP 400t running HPUX 7.03. I can send mail to other machines on the network, but my machine does not respond to incoming SMTP mail from other machines. Any ideas? Yes, it sounds to me like you aren't starting up a sendmail in daemon mode using the "-bd" flag in your /etc/rc file (or in some other file that runs when your system reboots). Something like "/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q30m", which tells sendmail to run in daemon mode and to try to resend messages in the queue every 30 minutes. See the man page for sendmail or the documentation that comes with it (or that might be available in /usr/doc on your system, or that is available in the bsd archives on gatekeeper.dec.com, or that is available with any sendmail source distribution) for more information. Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134 Office: 617-253-8085 Home: 617-782-0710