Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail

Mike Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Fri Sep 5 14:14:11 UTC 2008


-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re: Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail
From: Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com>
To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. 
<fedora-list at redhat.com>
Date: 09/05/2008 08:55 AM

> 
> Turn the sendmail service off, then send yourself a couple of mails:
> 
> echo lala | mail -s "test" root
> 
> Then check /var/spool/clientmqueue/. These messages appear to be on your 
> system anyway.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Jeroen van Meeuwen
> -kanarip
> 

Ugh, I knew I should have been replying to e-mail this early in the morning.

The better option is to `rpm -e logwatch` and that would stop mail from 
being generated. No need to disable mail.

Mike




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