On Fri, 2007-05-01 at 08:01 +0100, Juerd wrote: > Ask Bjørn Hansen skribis 2007-01-04 14:21 (-0800): > > Personally I often still keep a qmail-smtpd around anyway for > > "internal bulk mail" - cronjob mails, internal relay from servers > > sending administrative mails, etc... > > While I'm also still running a qmail-smtpd (for authenticated users), > system services like cron all use the sendmail interface, not SMTP.
What do you mean by "sendmail interface"? Is this documented somewhere? When sendmail is not installed, whatever MTA package replaces it, is generally configured to replace it. I think qmail may do this by listening on 127.0.0.1:25 rather than providing /usr/sbin/sendmail. I'm not sure how you can tell that every system service (like cron) will use one or the other. > > I think it may be safe to just get rid of qmail-smtpd. > > That's on a rather standard Debian system. -- --gh
