My original question: I just upgraded to Solaris 9 and noticed that I can't send mail > unless the sendmail daemon is running. Is this a requirement? > I get a message "An Error Occured when trying to send your message" The response I got from Rich Kulawiec summed it up. Mailtool is a MUA (mail user agent): you can used it to read, compose, and send mail. (Other MUAs: mutt, "Berkeley mail", pine.) Sendmail is a MTA (mail transport agent): it actually sends and receives mail from one machine to another. (Other MTAs: postfix, exim.) The problem is that your instance of mailtool has no MTA to talk to. Since mailtool is a MUA and has no idea how to actually send mail anywhere -- since it expects to hand it to a MTA -- you'll need to either (a) run a MTA or (b) configure your system to immediately hand it off to a MTA running on another machine. It's probably much easier to do (a), using a very minimal configuration -- what sendmail folks call a "smarthost' config. This means that your system will run just enough of a MTA to hand mail off to a system running a real full-fledged MTA -- which in turn will actually do the real work. ----------------------------------------------------------- Dave Martini LLNL _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Jan 22 14:16:31 2003
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