>>> ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx 08/11/2003 14:52:27 >>> 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? -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for your answer. Unfortunately no. This machine will be hosting a Lotus Domino server which has a daemon listening on port 25. Therefor sendmail must not be running as a daemon. All what I need is to send all my administrative Linux e-mail to a central help desk for monitoring. And I have a lot of scripts already running on the old machine (RH7.2) which uses "mail xxx@xxxxxxxx". Really, the simplest way would be that I could configure mail/sendmail on RH9 to have the same behavior as RH7.2... However, I spent already a couple of days on it and have not found the solution. Georges Rosset -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
