On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:45:35AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> 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.
Less software running, less complexity, fewer patches to apply, less
exposure.
I think that procmail, as an MDA, should handle the delivery just fine,
but it would definitely cause problems with programs that attempt to
connect to port 25, like mailx apparently does. I guess it should be
theoretically possible but it causes problems in practice. Although, if
a program called /usr/sbin/sendmail directly, it still ought to work.
Something like ssmtp seems as though it would be ideal, if only it did
local delivery.
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