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sendmail service is stopped

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omid

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hi
today i checked service sendmail in server Linux and see this message:
service sendmail is stopped
is it ok?
email are working but in some time when a lot of email is in queue mail, i have problem and bounce email goes wrong address..
what i have to to.
i tried to start the service but server show Failed message.
help me.
 
Originally posted by omid
hi
today i checked service sendmail in server Linux and see this message:
service sendmail is stopped
is it ok?
email are working but in some time when a lot of email is in queue mail, i have problem and bounce email goes wrong address..
what i have to to.
i tried to start the service but server show Failed message.
help me.

Yes, it is rightly that service sendmail is stopped. Plesk was configured to work with qmail MTA and running sendmail will prevent normal qmail functionality.
So I do recommend to remove executable permissions from sendmail starting script at all: chmod -x /etc/init.d/sendmail.

./anb
 
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