Shane Presley wrote:
> I just installed Fedora, and installed Big Brother for network
> monitoring. This is my first time setting up linux, so sorry for a
> newbie question.
>
> I need the server to have SMTP running, so that users in our network
> can send e-mails to the server, which will fire off a script to deal
> with the e-mail. For example an admin wants to acknowledge an alert,
> he sends mail to bb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Initially SMTP wasn't running on my box. So I just ran
> /etc/rc3.d/S80sendmail start.
Before you go too much further: many people find Postfix easier to
administer than Sendmail. (They are alternative MTAs, "SMTP servers", if
you will).
James.
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