Charlie Brady wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> Now, i don't have any proof either, but calling /usr/sbin/sendmail is >>> the >>> standard way and this is certainly done by cron. I have qpsmtpd >>> listening >>> on *:25, and i haven't seen any local generated mail going through >>> qpsmtpd. >> >> sendmail when used on the command line sends mail via qpsmtpd. > > I believe that to be a false (i.e. incorrect) statement. I don't know of > any sendmail which injects mail into the local queue via SMTP. It's > certainly not the case with the sendmail provided by qmail.
Neither do I - Postfix for example drops mail from sendmail into the maildrop queue - not into the SMTP daemon. Unless you replaced sendmail with some other mechanism your sendmail binary should deposit mail into your MTA's local mail queue. Regards James Turnbull -- James Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Author of Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590596099/) Hardening Linux (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590594444/) --- PGP Key (http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x0C42DF40)
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