>>I'm upgrading some servers from rh7.3 -> CentOS 3 and
>>have several scripts that use "mail" to relay
>>messages to my mail server.
>>
>>Am I correct on the assumption that you now have
>>to have sendmail running to use mail, where
>>as previously you did not? Or am I missing something?
>>
> You're missing something. mail has always injected to the local MTA to
> handle.
Ok, I'm no mail[x]/sendmail expert,
But the "DEFAULT" installation of mail[x]/sendmail
WILL NOT work unless you start sendmail.
It used to work without starting sendmail, but not anymore.
Somewhere between sendmail 8.11 and 8.12 things
have changed, local mail sent, now gets put into the
"/var/spool/clientmqueue" and will remain there until
sendmail's "Client Queue Runner" comes around to process it.
[root@cpq380-2 spool]# ps -A -fw | grep sendmail
root 3822 1 0 13:26 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: accepting
connections
smmsp 3831 1 0 13:26 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: Queue
runner@01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
Now if there's a way to change the "default" behavior
back, through a config change or sendmail param, I'm all ears?
