Gerd Bavendiek schrieb am Sun, 31 May 1998 17:24:30 +0200 (CEST): > > Hi, > My box is connected to my ISP via an ISDN router (Ascend pipeline), > which does dial on demand. I don't want sendmail to establish > connections in the background. The mail processing shall be delayed > until I explicitly make a connection.
If you don't need to receive mail via smtp, just remove sendmail from the inetd.conf or the /etc/rd.*d/ directories. Assuming, that it is started using the SysV init scripts, just issue the following command: update-rc.d -f sendmail remove to prevent its invocation on next startup. (BTW: Is there a way for doing this that will survive the next sendmail update?) > Though I found various hints on I was not able to make it work for > me. I'm using the Debian sendmail-package 8.8.8-16. This is my > current customization section in sendmail.mc: > > ## Custom configurations below (will be preserved) > define(`confDELIVERY_MODE', `delay') > FEATURE(nodns)dnl > FEATURE(nocanonify)dnl > FEATURE(nouucp)dnl > FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl > define(`SMART_HOST', `relay:[rw.sni.de]')dnl > define(`confCON_EXPENSIVE', `True')dnl > MASQUERADE_AS(rw.sni.de)dnl > define(`confUSERDB_SPEC', `/etc/mail/userdb.db')dnl > FEATURE(notsticky)dnl > MAILER(local)dnl > MAILER(smtp)dnl > > There is no nameserver on my box. > > Any hints really appreciated ! If the above setup is okay (i.e., your mail is correctly queued and the only remaining problem was the sendmail running in daemon mode, flushing the queue every 30m), just issue a runq in some file in the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ hierarchie to send the queued mail. If there is any additional problem with your setup, please tell us. Torsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]