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A warning for anyone installing linux for the first time who has an ISP that
supports users receiving e-mail via SMTP (aswell as, or instead of POP3) -
Demon Internet being a prime example:

The RedHat 5.2 installation (and others), by default, runs sendmail at
startup. This will cause you a problem if you haven't set up users on Linux
that correspond to the e-mail addresses at which people send you e-mail - as
soon as you connect, sendmail swings into action and receives all waiting
mail via SMTP but it will bounce all mail for users it doesn't know about
which is probably all of them (unless your e-mail address is
root@yourdomain.com!).

eg:  my e-mail address is mab@helion.demon.co.uk, mab is not set up as a user
on my linux system so all e-mail to mab gets bounced (not anymore!).

The thing do to, especially if you want to use POP3 to recieve your e-mail
(like I do) is just to remove sendmail from the startup files.

I only lost about 10 e-mails because of this - hopefully this will help
someone else to not lose any.

Michael.



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