At 4:15 PM +1100 3/28/02, Terry Allen imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding:
>>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. Have you tried running without sendmail? As I said, anything that sends mail through Unix does so by launching its own instance of sendmail (sometimes indirectly, using things like /usr/bin/mail) and should not require sendmail running as a daemon listening on port 25. You can make sendmail run as a queue-only daemon by removing '-bd' from the call in /System/Library/StartupItems/Sendmail/Sendmail if that how you are starting sendmail. -- 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]>
