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James Kosin jkosin at beta.intcomgrp.com
Mon Sep 20 15:43:29 UTC 2004


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Dear Hickam,

hicham wrote:
| Hello
| I am usin sendmail as an smtp server
| is there away to start up sendmail ( & start down )
| only when I send emails
|
| thanks

You don't need sendmail to send mail.  Sendmail allows others to send
email to your computer (in most cases this is not wanted).

Luckily, by default, sendmail is fairly secure.  But, if you are NOT
RUNNING an email server, you do not need this service for any reason.

James

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