Daniel Quappe wrote:

hi list,

the last days i configured a firewall-machine with a stripped-down suse 7.2 (all patches installed). i am using SuSEfirewall2 etc. and have installed postfix for dependency-reasons, but stopped it. as far as i know i can use the command "mail ..." for mailing to other hosts without running postfix. but i have got problems with the seccheck-info-mails because no mail has ever been delivered. do i have to start the mail-software to get the info- mails by secceck or other processes?

Sorry, I'm not sure I got the point here. Do you just mean that your computer will not be used as a mail server? If this is the case (quite normal...), you can configure postfix to act "local only" (the postfix faq has some examples, IIRC), but you can't *completely* stop it, or no mail at all will ever be delivered to local users.

best regards,

daniel

regards, and happy new year nicola