using sendmail without the service running

[Dave Cramer]

Just one more service I don't really need running, and I need to make  
sure it is secure.


Dave
On 9-Sep-06, at 7:40 AM, David Thornton wrote:

> If I may, Why not queue locally?
>
> David
>
> Dave Cramer wrote:
>> Answering my own question
>>
>> in /etc/mail/submit.mc
>>
>> change
>>
>> dnl If you use IPv6 only, change [127.0.0.1] to [IPv6:::1]
>> FEATURE(`msp', `[127.0.0.1]')dnl
>>
>> to
>> FEATURE(`msp', `your smtp server')dnl
>>
>> and shut down sendmail
>>
>> --dc--
>> On 7-Sep-06, at 1:40 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 06:09:59PM -0400, Dave Cramer wrote
>>>> I used to know how to do this, but can't find it anymore.
>>>>
>>>> There is a way to configure sendmail to send mail through a remote
>>>> smtp server without first queuing it locally. Does anyone know the
>>>> secret incantation ?
>>>
>>>   If you simply want a simple send-only client, try ssmtp, which  
>>> does
>>> only one thing, i.e. push email out the door to a smarthost (i.e. an
>>> MTA).  It's usually your ISP's MTA, but could be any MTA, if you can
>>> point it to the proper machine.
>>>
>>> -- 
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