sendmail

[John Thompson]

James Kosin wrote:

> | I am usin sendmail as an smtp server
> | is there away to start up sendmail ( & start down )
> | only when I send emails
> |
> | thanks

> You don't need sendmail to send mail.  Sendmail allows others to send
> email to your computer (in most cases this is not wanted).
> 
> Luckily, by default, sendmail is fairly secure.  But, if you are NOT
> RUNNING an email server, you do not need this service for any reason.

You might want it for local delivery of e.g. root's messages to your 
regular user account.

The OP could probably set up inetd or xinetd to invoke sendmail as 
needed, although for anything over a small volume of messages the 
latency is likely to be annoying.

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-John (john at os2.dhs.org)