Re: RH9 mail/sendmail behavior

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On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 11:57:38AM +0100, Georges Rosset wrote:
> 
> Dear RedHat gurus,
> 
> On RedHat 7.2, it was possible to send e-mail with:  "mail
> xxx@xxxxxxxx", even when sendmail was not running as a
> daemon.
> 
> On RedHat 9, this doesn't seem to be possible anymore. When
> sendmail is not running as a daemon, using "mail xxx@xxxxxxxx" 
> will not work and the following error message will appears on
> maillog:
> 
> stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
> 
> How could I get back the same behavior as RedHat 7.2 : that is
> to be able to send my administrative e-mail without having
> sendmail running as a daemon (I don't want the port 25 to be
> open) ?

The default configuration for sendmail, as shipped by Red Hat, is that
port 25 will be open, but *only* for 127.0.0.1.  That will allow you to
queue and send your mail, but not allow anyone from the outside to send
you mail.  Does this not effectively do what you want?

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