hi Y'all, Oh, I am guilty of running programs that I don't know exactly what they/their job is in the total process. I'm talking about the mail system I have set up. I just have a basic sendmail/procmail/evolution pop setup. I want to know exactly what sendmail's job is. The man sendmail page says it's job is to sendmail, as the name implies. Please tell me if my thinking is warped. I think sendmail sends the mail in both directions. you write a msg, it goes to sendmail and it gets sent on the way. a msg comes in sendmail is listening on, think it's port 25. sendmail grabs it and..... Here is where I am hung up. What actually takes place now? In just a basic, Sendmail system w/out many changes at all that came stock w/FC3, can I assume that: Say a msg comes in for rado, does it go to var/spool/mail/rado? when exactly does procmail get in the game? I notice that in /home/rado there is lots of stuff concering mail. ~/Mail, ~/mail, ~/.evolution. I really don't want to get too, too, tech here, just a little understanding of where the mail trail goes and how to follow it. thx john rose -- 1 good thing about Alzheimers...least you can hide your own easter eggs.
