hi guys,

can anybody please tell me how to use sendmail to send emails. Do i need to have the root password to use sendmail. how do i know whether sendmail is installed on the system and if it is installed whether it is running. how do i use it.
Further i guess that i can use it to send messages. but my doubt is that if i send messages then it is sent with what name and how. Can i integrate sendmail with java or can i use javamail api for this. If i can use javamail api then do i have to set up sendmail on the system.
I know that it's a lot of doubts but then i can't help myself i need the solution quickly... i have a submission coming up for my project and i need this desperately.
thanx....

1) No, any user should be able to use sendmail
2) One quick way would be to try "telnet localhost 25" from a command prompt. Should give you a response with a sendmail prompt.
3) Check some of the other posts regarding how to use sendmail from the command prompt. There's a bunch of them here

Hope this helps.

i did telnet localhost 25 and i found that i could get connected.

now how do i get the name of the mail server .... it must have some name right .....
e.g. mycompany.mail.com something like that. how do i know it .


And one more doubt ..... how do i use it....?????


thanx in advance....