Mail and Messaging Guide
Chapter 5, sendmail administration

Running and testing sendmail

Running and testing sendmail

To run sendmail in its entirety after running mkdev cf, start the sendmail SMTP server daemon using the command in the /etc/rc2.d/P86sendmail script. If you do not start this daemon, sendmail will only deliver outgoing messages that are not queued and incoming messages from UUCP that are not queued.

Test sendmail by creating and sending mail messages with mail(C). There are three sources for information about sendmail processing: