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You could setup a "status" account and have a process periodically send mail to it, then check to see if the message arrived and delete it. This would check that sendmail was working, not just running. Perhaps mail the current `date` so that the checker knew how old the message was when it read it.

I'm interested in seeing what kind of answer you get! I would love to have a quick check like it sppears the AIX has.

I do this. Two steps, really.

Test sendmail:
/usr/lib/sendmail -v </dev/null root
/usr/lib/sendmail -v </dev/null insatiable@anywhere.com

Then, I always check my syslog and look to make sure it went out:
tail /var/log/syslog | grep sendmail

Good luck!
Melissa

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