Re: sendmail blues

Yuri Csapo <[email protected]> Fri, 6 Nov 2009 16:53:30 -0700
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-admin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Max,

Thank you for your reply. Listening on localhost only won't help unfortunately, as the Sun app sits 
on that too. A pity, as it would have been easy to do that on sendmail - and it's not every day that 
you can use the words 'easy' and 'sendmail' in the same sentence :)

Yuri

Max Gribov wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 14:54 -0700, Yuri Csapo wrote:
>> Hi all, I've an unusual (for me) problem:
>> - give up on sendmail and install exim or postfix or something that can be understood by someone who 
>> hasn't read the Bat Book in the last 6 years and who is not particularly inclined to read it again.
> 
> well, if you install postfix you can make it listen on localhost only,
> and have its queue connect to the right place.
> 
> ubuntu default postfix config from any installation has the correct
> configuration, you just have to comment out these 2 lines:
> default_transport = error
> relay_transport = error
> 
> it should be a very easy install
> 
> 
>> Any other ideas?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Yuri
>>
> 

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