FC1 sendmail service questions

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Sat Feb 14 00:53:44 UTC 2004


Once upon a time, Darryl Luff <darryl at snakegully.nu> said:
> But for things like firewalls and other systems that don't route mail it 
> is standard practice to disable the sendmail daemon and run "sendmail 
> -qf" (?) from a cron job every 15 minutes or so to deliver any local mail.

That is not going to work right since sendmail 8.12.  That is why you
need to have sendmail running, at least listening on 127.0.0.1 (the
default for RHL and FC installs for the last several releases).  This is
secure (unless you have something routing to your loopback interface, in
which case you are probably already messed up).

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.





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