2008/6/3 Erik Bloodaxe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>
> Is is possible to configure sendmail to queue mail or send it directly with
> out running a listner on 127.0.0.1
>
>
Sendmail was changed a while back to split submission and delivery  so that
message submission is done by a process running as an unprivileged user and
delivery is done by a process running as root.  So on an unmodified system
you'll have a sendmail running under the user smmsp with the queue
/var/spool/clientmqueue (which you can see with "mailq -Ac") and one running
as root with the queue /var/spool/mqueue (which you can see with "mailq").
The submission sendmail sends messages to the other one by connecting to
127.0.0.1:25

What you're trying to do is to undo all that.  It's possible, but it's not
that straightforward (you'll need to seriously re-jig lots of stuff) and
what you'd lose is the significant security improvement that you get with
splitting sendmail the way its split.

The DAEMON=no option should have been removed ages ago.

jch
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