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Date:	Sat, 10 Feb 2001 18:16:24 PST
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: why is sendmail running?

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In <3A85F308.3A0C876C@gte.net>, on 02/10/01
at 06:06 PM, Benedict G Archer said:

>After setting up DSL with the linksys router (was easy and works fine)
>I've noticed that sendmail.exe is always running. It's not in startup
>folder, and if I kill it I still send mail OK. Do I need this? If not,
>how do I keep it from starting. It causes no problem, but on shutdown, I
>now get a message that a program is running and have to OK before it is
>closed.

Hi Ben,

It's running because you turned it on via TCP/IP configuration. It's run
by inetd, so I can understand why you might have some trouble finding
where it's started from.

Check your autostart settings and turn it off.

Steven

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