----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mark Cohen Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 6:17 PM To: 'redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx' Subject: RE: Mail is not working (any way to send message when daemon is down) 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 =================================================== HTML FOrmat deleted - please dont post in HTML ================================================== Then pine or a MUA with a configurable interface to a lightweight SMTP MTA is what he should use, the problem here is why is sendmail crashing in the first place. It is always possible that if he uses a MUA that calls sendmail for outbound and there is something wrong with his setup then he may also fail to send mail if the MUA side of sendmail also has the same problem and crashes as well. hence, he should use something other than sendmail as a MTA and have it connect to a sendmail hub/relay daemon on a different server. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
