sendmail running on localhost 25?

Tabor Kelly tkelly-freebsd-questions at taborandtashell.net
Fri Dec 24 20:54:38 PST 2004


Ruben de Groot wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 03:26:15AM -0700, James typed:

<snip>

> This will also disable those annoying daily, weekly and montly 
> messages recieved from cronjobs.
> 
> Who wants to read about your disks filling up, attempts to break into
> your server and other futilities anyway ;-)

A typical qmail install includes the following:

$ killall sendmail
$ mv /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail.old
$ chmod 0 /usr/sbin/sendmail.old
$ ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
$ chmod 0 /usr/libexec/mail.local

cron ends up calling /var/qmail/bin/sendmail.

-Tabor


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