On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:12:23AM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * edj (2003-07-15 03:31 +0200) > > My machine is not sending localmail, i.e., error messages, cron junk, > > etc, to root -- "Sendmail: cannot open port 25". No wonder - I do > > not have sendmail installed. > > Sure you have. Try "which sendmail". > > > I'd rather not install it. I have ssmtp, but my wanderings around Google > > tell me that it is not for delivery of local mail. > > That's exactly what it's for. Have a look at /etc/ssmtp.
Thorsten, I think you're confusing the sendmail package with the sendmail executable. Because of unix history and standards, a mail package must include a "sendmail" executable for use by other applications - this is true of sendmail, qmail, postfix, and so on. But ssmtp is just a simple package for getting mail from a local system to a remote MTA; it doesn't handle incoming mail, which is what the original question was about. Nathan Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
