At 4:27 PM +1100 3/28/02, Terry Allen imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: >>At 21:31 +1100 27/03/02, Terry Allen wrote: >>>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. >> >>easiest way is to change /etc/services for smtp to be port 24 >>(private mail) instead of port 25. >> >>Or not have sendmail running (it will run when it needs to) >> >>-- >Hi again, > Many thanks for that - would a call from a Perl Script start >Sendmail to send the email out & then stop it again when it's finished >sending?
yes, that's how mail sending works on Unix: something (like a Perl script) launches sendmail only to send. That process never tries to bind to port 25. Incidentally, if you are using Matt Wright's formmail.pl, STOP. That script has serious security problems by design. I would go so far as to say that using anything by Matt Wright is unwise, but that's just because I've read a lot of his code. -- 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]>
