At 9:31 PM +1100 3/27/02, Terry Allen imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: >Hi again, > Well, I now have SIMS running on my OSX server alongside Sendmail - >I do have one problem though, Sendmail is listening to the SMTP port (25?) >& blocking email getting to the SIMS listener. > Bill Cole emailed to the list mentioning that Sendmail could be >configured not to 'listen' for inbound messages, but could still send out. >Bill - if you're reading, would you mind posting to the list how to do >this, or email me off-list please - I am just about there with SIMS, as it >will accept mail when sendmail isn't running to a test domain name. If I >can shut Sendmail's listener off, it should work - any suggestions from >here much appreciated.
Just shut off sendmail. It doesn't need to be running for other programs to send mail out, unless they are doing really dumb things (like connecting to port 25 instead of running command-line mail stuff.) Any mail command that needs to send via SMTP launches a sending instance of sendmail of its own, so having a daemon running is irrelevant to sending mail, usually. The one risk with just shutting off the sendmail daemon is that you lose queue running. This means that if a send fails transiently, it never gets retried. To get around this, you can run a pure queue-runner sendmail daemon (sendmail-q<time> as described in the sendmail man page) *WITHOUT* the -bd flag that makes it listen on port 25, or you can run 'sendmail -q' periodically out of the root crontab. -- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
