using sendmail without the service running

Dave Cramer davec-zxk95TxsVYDyHADnj0MGvQC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org
Sat Sep 9 14:47:19 UTC 2006


On 9-Sep-06, at 9:41 AM, John Van Ostrand wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 07:57 -0400, Dave Cramer wrote:
>> Just one more service I don't really need running, and I need to make
>> sure it is secure.
>
> Security shouldn't be a big concern. Sendmail is pretty secure on most
> distro's installation. On Fedora/Red Hat for example, the only ports
> listening by default are on localhost.
Good point
>
> As long as the solution can handle message loss (when the remote SMTP
> server is unavailable) then lack of queuing shouldn't be a problem.
this is rare, as the SMTP server that I have is on the same local  
area network
>
> What about system messages? You must be running a real stripped down
> system.
They are punted off the box as well. There are certainly cases where  
I do run very small linux versions, yes.
>
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