[ale] Local email w/o sendmail daemon on RHL 9

[Mike Millson]

On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 09:47, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Bob Toxen wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:55:48PM -0500, Mike Millson wrote:
> > > Has anyone figured out how to send email to a local account w/o running
> > > the sendmail daemon on Red Hat 9? 
> > Weeeeell, edit your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file to cause that POS MSA
> > daemon to listen on IP 127.0.0.1 instead of its default 0.0.0.0.

The way I understand it, sendmail.cf is used when sendmail is running in
MTA mode. And w/ v8.12, I think the daemon is MTA mode because only the
daemon has privileges to write to /var/spool/mqueue.

When sendmail is stopped, mail is queued in /var/spool/clientmqueue,
which is where is looks like mail handled by the MSA is put.

To me it looks like the only way to send mail in v8.12 is using MSA. And
sendmail in MSA mode uses the new submit.cf file. So I think some change
needs to be made to submit.mc (then submit.cf created w/ m4). 

> 
> On Red Hat, this is already done for you. By default, both sendmail and
> Postfix are bound to loopback only.

That's how it was before version 8.12. I can send email to a local
account w/o having sendmail running. I tested this on my RHL 7.1 box.

But version 8.12 is different because of the MSA.

If you're running RHL 9, try stopping sendmail and sending an email to a
local account. I'll bet you can't, at least not w/ the default
configuration.

Mike