Sendmail using fetchmail w/o sm-client on dial up

[Paul Howarth]

Bob Taylor wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 10:42 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 15:08 -0700, Bob Taylor wrote:
>>> I have service sendmail restart in my email script because out going
>>> email wasn't being sent and I could not find any way to get sendmail to
>>> send it as sendmail -q didn't work. So...what happens if I remove sm-
>>> client??? This is with a dial up ISP. Currently on FC3 waiting for RH to
>>> upgrade RHEL.
>> Use:
>>
>> # sendmail -q -Ac
>>
>> to run the client queue.
>>
>> Paul.
> 
> Thanks Paul. Another question. Can submit.cf be identical to sendmail.cf?

It certainly shouldn't be because they're for two different things.

submit.cf is used only for processing mail generated locally (which is 
stored in /var/spool/clientmqueue) and only delivers it to the local MTA.

sendmail.cf is the general configuration file for the MTA itself, which 
uses /var/spool/mqueue to queue mails.

The use of two separate queues means that sendmail doesn't have to be 
installed setuid root; writing to /var/spool/clientmqueue is done using 
a setgid (to smmsp) sendmail program, and the main MTA just runs as root 
so that it can deliver mail to all users.

Paul.