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Paul wrote:
> 
<snip>
> How can I tell which version of sendmail I am using?

cat /etc/sendmail.cf | grep DZ, or you could mail yourself and look at
the headers.

> Am I supposed to put the sendmail.cf file in my /etc directory?

Yes.

> also do I need to create a virtusertable file in the /etc directory?

Sort of. You need to create a (plain text) mapping table with vi or
whatever, and then convert this into a database with makemap. By default
sendmail will look for this database in /etc, but this can be
overridden.

 - Ian