Actually,
You are wrong.. You can send mail w/o the sendmail daemon running. Your mail client calls sendmail to deliver the mail, it doesn't need to connect to a daemon..
You run the daemon to accept incoming mail. ie. Keep the smtp port open to accept mail.
Depending on the client ofcourse..
Mutt for instance isn't a mta, its just a client that calls sendmail
Pine has its own mta in it.
As for smtp, there are a number of light smtp programs out there, just search for them.
-Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris W. Parker [mailto:cparker@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 2:18 PM
To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Mail is not working (any way to send message when daemon is down)
Dali Islam <mailto:ibmdali@xxxxxxxxx>
on Thursday, October 09, 2003 1:33 PM said:
> Anyway, anyone knows how to send/relay a message only
> on the root login session when a service/daemon is
> down. Like in this case my sendmail was down.
Can a car be driven if the motor isn't on? Can you make Pepsi without
the ingredients?
You may be able to send mail with something OTHER than sendmail, but I
don't know how. And to answer your question directly, no you cannot send
mail via sendmail if the sendmail daemon is not running.
chris.
p.s. someone correct me if i am wrong!! thanks!
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