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

[Bob Toxen]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:47:51AM -0500, 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.

> On Red Hat, this is already done for you. By default, both sendmail and
> Postfix are bound to loopback only.
Then you're all set.  I assume that the real question was how to ensure
security by preventing those on the Internet from sending you evil email.

> Also, on RH you normally don't / can't edit sendmail.cf. The sendmail SysV
> init script regenerates sendmail.cf from sendmail.mc automatically, so you
> either have to edit sendmail.mc, or else edit /etc/init.d/sendmail to remove 
> the autogeneration feature and then edit sendmail.cf....
Well, edit the stupid config script.

> later,
> chris