Dave Miner wrote: > You mean sendmail's whining? There are various opinions on what ought > to be done about that; mine is that sendmail ought to be disabled by > default (desktop systems have no need of it that I can see), or that it > should send those messages to its logfile rather than the console.
Disabling sendmail on a desktop is ok, *provided* you also make sure to find a way to prevent people calling mailx or /usr/lib/sendmail from the command line to send mail from programs. For example, what happens to mail from cron? Otherwise in this case, what can happen is that 99% of time the mail will get relayed and delivered, but in the 1% of cases that mail gets queued there's no queue runner process and so it never gets delivered. There are various good and possible solutions to this, of course, but some fix should be attempted. For example one option is to get sendmail to bounce the mail with "rejected because cannot queue the mail" or "rejected because no mailhost configured", etc. Hugh.
