I'm running fedora release 2, and I've been trying to get sendmail running when I roll my own. In fact, I compiled and installed sendmail 8.13.1, and then downgraded 8.12.11, and I couldn't get either of them to work. I would get processes to run, but "netstat ?a" would show no "LISTEN" on port 25. I then turned around and, using yum, installed the stock sendmail for fedora (for completeness, I'l mention that I had previously uninstalled it before attempting the stock installs). It works. Does anyone know what I might have been leaving out when I did my installs? Pretty frustrating. There were no log errors on startup or anything. With the exception of the netstat, everything looked like it should work. === Al