"Cowles, Steve" <Steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> The sm-client in sendmail, where can I read about it. >> What it does, what its supposed to do etc. >> >> [snip] >> >> Where can I get the full story? > > Search for MSP -or- MAIL SUBMISSION PROGRAM in the cf/README file. Thanks. Yes, it tells a little about it. Pretty confusing calling it a mail submission program, using msp in conf files and then naming it sm-client. Looks like they would at least have used msp-client for the recognition factor. Also, though thankfull for the information, its pretty skimpy. One thing I wondered was if one would expect to see more than on instance of it running.. Like does each user run it. I think my redhat init script is starting it repeatedly by not killing it on restarts. Or some other mechanism. /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail looks for the pid in the wrong place /var/run, when sm-client places its pid in /var/spool/clientqueue by default. So /etc/rc.d/init.d/generates a phony one in /var/run with touch. Not sure I'm following the whole thing though.
