2008/10/7 Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 05:50:19PM -0600, kwhiskerz wrote:
When I try to send mail as root to me, or as me to root, the following
error ensues: send-mail: Cannot open localhost.localdomain:25. System
mail is not delivered.
Correct. Ssmtp is a mail
2008/10/7 Jonathan Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
2008/10/7 Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 05:50:19PM -0600, kwhiskerz wrote:
When I try to send mail as root to me, or as me to root, the following
error ensues: send-mail: Cannot open localhost.localdomain:25. System
mail
Jonathan Underwood wrote:
An alternative is to use esmtp (a lightweight ssmtp equivalent) with
postfix for local mail delivery - see here:
http://esmtp.sourceforge.net/manual.html
I appreciate the suggestion, but I don't see how this would be an advantage
(this is arcane territory for
kwhiskerz wrote:
Jonathan Underwood wrote:
An alternative is to use esmtp (a lightweight ssmtp equivalent) with
postfix for local mail delivery - see here:
http://esmtp.sourceforge.net/manual.html
I appreciate the suggestion, but I don't see how this would be an
advantage (this is
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
esmtp or ssmtp are replacements Sendmail, and are faster loading.
You are using procmail for local mail delivery now - Sendmail calls
it when needed. It is not a daemon.
I didn't realize I was already running procmail! I was curious to see if this
would give me a
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: some suggestions...
Mikkel
So, I installed esmtp, shut down the sendmail daemon, and created a file,
/etc/esmtprc with the following contents:
hostname = localhost.localdomain:25
mda /usr/bin/procmail -d %T
I did not enter a username, password or identity line,
kwhiskerz wrote:
So, I installed esmtp, shut down the sendmail daemon, and created
a file, /etc/esmtprc with the following contents:
hostname = localhost.localdomain:25 mda /usr/bin/procmail -d %T
I did not enter a username, password or identity line, as I do
not
send myself mail as
Install esmtp, shut down the sendmail daemon, create a file, /etc/esmtprc with
only 2 lines:
hostname = localhost.localdomain:25
mda /usr/bin/procmail -d %T
Run alternatives --config mta and select '2' for esmtp.
Presto! A split second of boot time saved.
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On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 11:09 -0600, kwhiskerz wrote:
What got me started on this was that I had read an article about a
5-second linux boot and they said they had disabled sendmail and were
using ssmtp instead with significant time saving.
Hmm, sendmail is very quick to start up, here. Hardly
I went back to sendmail, as it doesn't work after all. System mail does not get
delivered with procmail and esmtp.
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I need system mail to be delivered to my user account. I do not send mail to
the outside world using mailx etc, as I use my ISP's pop server. I only have
one user on the computer, me (and me as root).
I used sendmail successfully, but thought it might be overkill, so decided to
try ssmtp.
I
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 05:50:19PM -0600, kwhiskerz wrote:
When I try to send mail as root to me, or as me to root, the following
error ensues: send-mail: Cannot open localhost.localdomain:25. System
mail is not delivered.
Correct. Ssmtp is a mail forwarder, not an MTA. You have no local MTA
Put sendmail back. It was configured to do what you say you want out of
the box.
Ok (sheepishly) ;-)
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