>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]
>
Hi again,
Thanks for the info Bill, but I do need Sendmail running to send
mail out using a formmail perl script, which isn't compatible with SIMS. If
you might be able to tell me how & what to edit in Sendmail (or whatever
else I need to edit), I can experiment with using the formmail & SIMS at
the same time. But for needing Sendmail for the various Perl scripts, I
wouldn't be concerned.
Bye for now, Terry Allen
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