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Old 08-09-2010
sendmail on AIX

Hi,

Is sendmail required to read local mail for root user on AIX?
I shutdown sendmail daemon and sent a test mail to root and I got it. I don't know if I'm missing something here.

Thanks
regards
Israel.

Last edited by iga3725; 08-09-2010 at 04:29 AM..
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Old 08-09-2010
I was wondering about that too - check this out:
Able to send mail without running MTA (sendmail)?

Moving thread to AIX sub forum.
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