FC1 sendmail service questions

Darryl Luff darryl at snakegully.nu
Sat Feb 14 00:50:27 UTC 2004


John Klingler wrote:

>It is need for local mail (like LogWatch) and it is safe to leave running.
>The default configuration is to only respond to requests from the local host
>(127.0.0.1).
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But for things like firewalls and other systems that don't route mail it 
is standard practice to disable the sendmail daemon and run "sendmail 
-qf" (?) from a cron job every 15 minutes or so to deliver any local mail.






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