On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 00:15, AZ Pete wrote:
> I'm quite sure no MTA is running on the box that works:
> 
> 1) I did a netstat and there are no services listening on port 25
> 
> 2) when I telnet localhost 25, I get "connection refused"
> 
> 3) When I originally set up this box, I removed sendmail from the startup 
> scripts, so it would never start.  I was always under the impression that 
> local mail delivery did not require an MTA.  I thought when sendmail 
> receives mail from the outside and determines that the recipient is a local 
> user, sendmail hands the message off to the local mail delivery agent.
> 
> 
> At any rate, on the one machine where local mail delivery works, sendmail 
> is NOT running.  No MTA is running.  I just want the same thing to work on 
> the other box.  Any other thoughts??
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yeah maybe I'm stupid but if nothing is listening to port 25 - and no
MTA is loaded, why would you expect local mail to function? That is the
point of an MTA.

If I stop sendmail and /bin/mail a message to myself, it is refused. If
I start sendmail - it works.

Default on Red Hat - and probably most systems these days is to listen
only to 127.0.0.1 (localhost) and that is all you need. I guess I don't
see the point of what you are trying to accomplish by not having
sendmail run.

Craig

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