On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:36, you wrote:
Hi Theo -- I want to thank you, Gour, ckm, Uli and Martin for adding to my knowledge on sendmail. However, I need to correct one error in my earlier post: --- I said I had "sendmail" turned off. That was incorrect ---- I do have it on. As all you linux guru's know, not only was "mail" one of the original unix killer applications, "mail"is still necessary for the health of of and unix/linux machine. Each Linux box needs some way to communicate --whether it be by sendmail, postfix, qmail or one of the other mta's.
There is no need to have a sendmail daemon running. Local mail runs fine as /usr/lib/sendmail still exists, and the rest gets punted off direct to an SMTP mailhub. oak:/etc/ircd # grep smtp /etc/services smtp 25/tcp mail # Simple Mail Transfer smtp 25/udp mail # Simple Mail Transfer rsmtp 2390/tcp # RSMTP rsmtp 2390/udp # RSMTP oak:/etc/ircd # oak:/etc/ircd # netstat -tlp | grep smtp I have fetchmail set to use procmail as delivery agent direclty but even that configuration was only necessary to quieten a warning message in the logs, that it could not connect to the SMTP server on localhost. Rob