sendmail howto for Redhat

Don't use linuxconf to setup sendmail anymore. It will
open up sendmail for spam attacks.

Instead go to the /etc/mail/ directory

in the access file add you local ip addresses

Example
192.168.2	RELAY

would allow anyone from the 192.168.2.xxx subnet to send e-mail

The local-host-names file should have you domain name.
Example

coolwebsites.org

once the changes have been made type     make    to rebuild
the databases

Recap

vi access
   add local subnet

vi local-host-names
   add domain name

make

if make says that it did nothing then

make clean         this removes all of the .db files.
make


Now restart sendmail and test.
use the sendmail stop command a few times until it says fail
The script doesn't kill all of the processes as it should

/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop

/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start

use linuxconf
	Service Control Activity
		sendmail
     and check Automatic
	and levels 2 through 5
	so sendmail automatically starts on reboots.