On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 07:07, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
> As an alternative solution, I can shut down my laptop's sendmail
> and tunnel port 25 from my external mail server through ssh.
> Unfortunately, mutt uses /sbin/sendmail to post outbound messages,
> so they end up in the queue of my local (non-running) sendmail
> daemon anyway.  (/sbin/sendmail tries to send immediately [which
> fails], and then queues it up for retrying.)

You could do the SSH tunnel and run sendmail in the non-listen mode. 
That, I think, would do it for you.  I think the param would be
something like:
        -q15 
where 15 is the time in minutes you want the queue purged.  I can't
recall the switch to not make it listen though.


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