To find out if sendmail is running:

# ps -ef | grep sendmail

To stop and restart sendmail:

# stopsrc -s sendmail
# startsrc -s sendmail -a "-bd -q30m"

Or:

# refresh -s sendmail

Use the -v flag on the mail command for "verbose" output. This is especially useful if you can't deliver mail, but also don't get any errors. E.g.:

# cat /etc/motd |mailx -v -s"test" email@address.com

To get sendmail to work on a system without DNS, create and/or edit /etc/netsvc.conf. It should contain 1 line only:

hosts=local

If you see the following error in the error report when starting sendmail:

DETECTING MODULE
'srchevn.c'@line:'355'
FAILING MODULE
sendmail

Then verify that your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file is correct, and/or try starting the sendmail daemon as follows (instead of just running "startsrc -s sendmail"):

# startsrc -s sendmail -a "-bd -q30m"

More tips can be found here: http://www.angelfire.com/il2/sgillen/sendmail.html



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