Turning Off Sendmail In Fedora 11

[G.Wolfe Woodbury]

Robert L Cochran wrote:
> I notice that sendmail is turned on by default in Fedora 11. I would 
> like to turn it off. What is the impact of doing this -- will I cause a 
> problem with other services like httpd? I haven't really paid attention 
> to trends in sendmail management these days.

Sendmail is enabled so that there is a local mail transfer agent (MTA).
The default install is /not/ network enabled, one has to edit the config 
files to allow network (incoming) access to mail.

> Should I be reviewing the messages that are emailed to the root user?

In general, yes.
More proper is to edit the last line of the /etc/aliases file to forward 
root's mail to a real user. [Don't forget to run newaliases after making 
changes to /etc/aliases.]

Personally, I have /etc/aliases send me root's mail and then I have 
procmail sort it into a separate Thunderbird folder for special attention.

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G.Wolfe Woodbury