hi im sort of new to linux..been on it about 5 months...im wanting to setup sendmail...cause i test out irc services which need sendmail...but i,ve looked everywhere...cant get it...maybe one of you guys/gals could help me? i would appreciate it..thank you.

what problems are you having?, iirc sendmail is installed as default in slackware 9 and runs on startup.

well when it starts up at boot...it lags my system really bad and it runs hard.

Hmm, I've never seen sendmail be a memory or CPU hog unless perhaps it is set up as an open-relay. I am sure that Slackware configures a secure system. Do your log files give any indication?

log file is showin me it's workin heh...but when its running my system is lagging big time...

i got sendmail not to lag...but now when sendmail goes to send something out to a email...it puts a file called dead.letter in the dir where im sending from...with the email description in it...but never sends it out to the email... =(

dead.letter ? are you using pine?

When using pine, if you hit ctrl c (to cancel it) and select yes, it will cancel the mail and copy it to dead.letter. (maybe others too)

Double check your hitting ctrl x and not ctrl c

You might want to use Postfix instead of sendmail. It's easier to set-up, more secure, and sendmail compatible too.

postfix? its not installed on my system...

"postfix? its not installed on my system..."

You could install it The postfix home page can be found at http://www.postfix.org/, but you can only download the source and compile it. Compiling software isn't difficult, but it could be a little confusing for newbies. (and the postfix source install is a little rare/odd too, for some reason )

Fortunately, www.linuxpackages.net has a nice postfix package for slackware too (i'll just assume you have slackware )
* download it
* open a terminal window
* type "su" to become root. (I hope you aren't root already, this is not a good thing)
* type "installpkg postfix..." Just press the tab button to auto-complete.
* type "exit" to leave your root-shell, and exit again to close the window.

Since postfix installs a sendmail compatible interface, you might want to remove sendmail first. Removing a package can be done with "removepkg <name>", but you might want to try the "pkgtool" command. pkgtool displays a nice graphical menu where you can look for the package, and remove it too.

The postfix configuration is stored in /etc/postfix/, and main.cf is the first file you might want to look at. type "postfix start" to start postfix, and "postfix reload" if you change the configuration (or wait a few seconds). Most mail-deamons log infomation in /var/log/maillog; you can view any diagnostic information in that file.

yup all setup and mail server is running...for now. =p ty

oh boy.. You've posted a reply while I was editing my post.. lol

edit: if your mailserver is running, and accessable from the internet too, beware that you don't run an "open relay" server, because it can be used by anyone on the internet to send spam. (or just firewall the service, or run it at the localhost interface only )

btw you know html or php well?

yes I know a little php. (html isn't really a problem) but why are you asking?

well im starting a irc network...but need sombody who knows php/html to put up a site for me heh.