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sendmail failing to activate

Posted on September 1, 2013

New server built, Fedora 17 x64. For some reason the sendmail service will not start. i am not super familar with Linux, I know enough to get a LAMP set up configured. Not sure where to look to find the problem.



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Look in the error logs for errors, do you see anything? <br> <br>I <em>think</em> the error log is <code>/var/log/maillog</code> in Fedora but I’m not entirely sure: <br> <br><pre>tail /var/log/maillog</pre>

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