Re: sendmail blues

Max Gribov <[email protected]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:08:41 -0500
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-admin
Message-ID <1257552521.18857.4197.camel@vader>
On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 16:53 -0700, Yuri Csapo wrote:
> 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 :)

try commenting out in /etc/postfix/master.cf:
smtp      inet  n       -       -       -       -       smtpd

that way smtp wont run on a tcp socket
local delivery should be ok

> 
> 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
> >>
> > 
>