Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 23:16:32 -0000

> When I used redhat7.2, I can send mail out by execute 'mail'
> simply, even though I stop the service 'sendmail'.

> Now, I use redhat8.0, I can't send any mail out, local machine
> or non-local machine.  I sensed this because I didn't get
> mail from 'logwatch'.  Do I have to turn service 'sendmail'
> up?  What's the problem and how can I fix it?

Do you have sendmail installed? You don't need to have a sendmail server running, but you do need the program available for mail to call on when you send stuff.

John Wingate