is it normal to have have serveral sendmail proccess running after install of spamassassin

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jan 28 19:35:30 GMT 2005


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Yes quite normal. It's receiving mail from several different places at once.

David Ballengee wrote:

> I am new to sendmail, and spamassassin.
>
> When I do a ps-aux I noticed I have a few sendmail process's running.
>
> they look something like this
>
> sendmail: server [61.191.231.216] cmd read
>
> Is this normal?
>
> They eventauly timeout from what I can see.

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