I didn't think the sendmail daemon had to be active to send mail out from the 
host? 

Harry Schaefer
Atlanta, GA

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-admin 
AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Hal Skelly
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 4:27 PM
To: 'Paul Greene'; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] How does Netbackup handle Sendmail backup?

Paul, as sendmail handles smtp requests asynchronously, you will have to kill 
and restart the daemon before doing the backup (unless you can otherwise 
guarantee that no mail will be sent/received during the time the backup is 
running).  This is easily handled with pre and post scripts.  The complication 
arises from notification though.  Once the job ends, smtp notification can't be 
sent until the daemon is running again.  

Hal Skelly


-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Paul Greene
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 12:38 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] How does Netbackup handle Sendmail backup?


Is there any special quirks, requirements (i.e. agents, etc, ?), difficulties 
with using Netbackup to back up Sendmail mailboxes running on Solaris 9 on 
Sparc?

We're moving from an MS Exchange mail server to Sendmail, and I'm used to 
needing the optional Exchange agent for mail backup. Just wondering if a 
special agent is needed to keep Sendmail databases and mail folders

in sync.

Thanks

Paul Greene
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