sendmail maintenance?

[Andrzej Filip]

AFAIK In most installations properly configured sendmail requires
only two maintenance tasks:
A) periodic log trimming
redhat does it (it rotates /var/log/maillog file)
B) (infrequent) queue directory "cleaning" in sendmail startup script
The "cleaning" script for sendmail 8.9 is provided in sendmail
package documentation. [ remove zero size qf* files ...]

"Pieter J. D. Huiberts" wrote:

> Would you mind being a little more specific about this? Is the way sendmail
> handles messages sifgnificantly different from lets say cc:mail or exchange,
> that it take better care of things like indexing and wholes (of deleted
> messages)?
>
> As I stated before, I am new in to Linux and as we all want just to have and
> keep the system, running at peak efficiency?
>
> Again, thanks for your help
> Piet
>
> Neil W Rickert wrote:
>
> > "Pieter J. D. Huiberts" <huiberts na earthlink.net> writes:
> > >I am new to Linux I managed to install Redhat 6.1, sendmail and qpopper.
> > >All goes fine! I was wondering what kind of maintenance requires
> > >sendmail? Do I need to do periodic 'reclaims'? etc.
> > >Could somebody shed some light on this?
> >
> > If it is running fine, you don't have to do anything.

--
Andrzej (Andrew) A. Filip           http://bigfoot.com/~anfi
anfi na bigfoot.com    anfi na polbox.com    anfi na sdf.lonestar.org
Postings:  http://deja.com/profile.xp?author=Andrzej%20Filip