On 13-Mar-2003/04:14 -0600, "Cowles, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I can't speak of behalf of redhat, but personally I don't see how programs >like cronjobs, mail, etc... could send an e-mail without an MTA running (at >least listening) on the box.
They pipe the data into sendmail using a standard command line. Sendmail attempts to deliver the message using whatever command line options are provided, then exits. I've done this before, but I've also found that it's better to have sendmail run s as a daemon, and listen only on localhost. That way it can retry failed deliveries. Those retries will not happen if sendmail is not running as a daemon unless you periodically run a cronjob to flush the queue. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
