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"DJ Boris" <dj_boris@mail.ru> writes:

> could someone please explain to me what the different statuses of the
> sendmail daemon are?
> I have been google-ing for days now to find some docs on sendmail but .....
> I have been trying to figure out what all these things actually mean.. in
> the /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> what is the difference between sendmail.cf and submit.cf .... what functions
> of the daemon are they for?

Sounds like you haven't found "man rc.sendmail" yet.
That would be a good place to start.