use an alias for root, and sendmail will send them to another address (create/edit .forward in /root, add an email address for the mail to be sent to) Stopping sendmail daemon will not stop mail being sent, only recieved.
James and sendmail dont link together very well, if you are using sendmail to manage mail for users on a multiuser machine James will not integrate well into that situation. If you want to run a mailserver Use James, thats what its good at. d. > -----Original Message----- > From: Shal Jain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 26 March 2002 16:04 > To: James Users List > Subject: Re: RedHat Linux 7.02 + James > > > Thanx much for the clarification. > This is from a Linux newbie prespective - > are there other daemons/tools as part of the OS that might be > using sendmail > to notify root. > When I first installed the OS, I remember getting mail as root (generic > welcome message) > If I disable sendmail, how do those tools send any administrative emails ? > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Danny Angus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "James Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 9:52 AM > Subject: RE: RedHat Linux 7.02 + James > > > > > I have Java (Sun JVM 1.4) and James installed on RH 7.02. I ran > > > /bin/run.sh > > > initally to get James installed. > > > Now when I run James it hangs on SMTP service. > > > > Unless you are actually using sendmail it should *always* be disabled. > > > > > Is it better to have JAMES > > > use SMPT on a different port. > > > > If james was using a different port it wouldn't recieve any mail, as all > > SMTP agents will attempt to connect to James on port 25 > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
