/etc/mail/* echo `hostname` > /etc/mail/local-host-names cat > /etc/mail/aliases << "EOF" postmaster: root MAILER-DAEMON: root EOF cp -R cf/* /etc/mail && cp cf/cf/{submit,sendmail}.mc /etc/mail && newaliases -v To automate the running of Sendmail at startup, install /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail init script included in the package. make install-sendmail The -qNm option to sendmail, where N is number of minutes, controls how often Sendmail will process the mail queue. A default of 5 minutes is used in the init script. Individual workstation users may want to set this as low as 1 minute, large installations handling more mail will want to set it higher.