On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 14:14:07 -0800
Rowan Reid
I've always left sendmail as a part of the default install. Reason being I figured it is required for internal mail delivery. Can I remove this from my install and still have internal mail delivery ie update notifications to root and so forth
Yeah, just manually run "/usr/sbin/sendmail -q" whenever you want, maybe put it in halt.local. If sendmail isn't running, the mail gets put in either /var/spool/clientmqueue or /var/spool/mqueue. It gets moved to /var/spool mail if you start sendmail or call "sendmail -q". Stop the sendmail daemon and play around sending test messages to yourself. See where they go, then run "?usr/bin/sendmail -q" and watch what it does to the messages. Some programs are finicky about using the sendmail daemon on port 25, but most programs for the localhost, will just call /usr/bin/sendmail. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation