sendmail

[Paul Howarth]

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 

Sendmail won't work properly like that because the mail server you are trying 
to send mail to may not be accepting mail so your sendmail server needs to 
queue it and retry it later.

What is your concern about running sendmail all the time?

One thing you could try would be to edit /etc/mail/submit.mc and change the line:

FEATURE(`msp', `[127.0.0.1]')dnl

replacing the 127.0.0.1 with the hostname or IP address of the mail relay you 
want to use. This would enable you to send mail out without actually needing 
the main sendmail server running at all, but you would still need to run 
"sendmail -Ac -q" periodically to flush out any queued mail.

If you make this change, you'll need the sendmail-cf package installed to 
build the submit.cf file needed by sendmail.

Paul.