On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > Paul Greene wrote: > > If you disable sendmail in rc3.d or rc5.d, does it disable it > > completely? Or does it just disable it's ability to receive mail, but > > will still send mail when needed? > > It will no longer be running, so you can't connect to it using SMTP, but > you can still send outgoing mail by calling sendmail directly: > > cat messagefile | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t
This is half true. Outgoing email where the destination is immediately available will be sent. Email items which are deferred will not be sent or cleaned out until a "sendmail -q" is run. This potentally means that the file system that the mqueue directory is on will slowly fill up with deferred email. If you want to do out-bound only email then be sure to add a sendmail -q to the cron. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
