On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 12:58:26PM -0700, Jeremy Leonard wrote: > Over the past couple of weeks I've been working on pairing down the > services that are running on my laptop, with the idea of only having > what I absolutely need running. I'm having trouble figuring out if > sendmail has any use for a laptop that isn't being used in a server > capacity. It seems that the only information I can find when googling > sendmail is when it is being used on a server. Any help on whether > sendmail has useful functionality for a machine that isn't running a > mail server would be greatly appreciated. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
Local mail delivery. Oftentimes, events are emailed to a username (root, or your admin user, depending on configuration). It may be safe to stop sendmail, but there's really no reason to, since it should be basically instant startup, with next to no resources consumed. And there's the possibility that you'll receive an email about an event that relates to a problem you otherwise may not have noticed.
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