From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Max Gribov Subject: Re: sendmail blues Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:51:35 -0500 Message-ID: <1257551495.18857.4195.camel@vader> References: <4AF49B12.8050405@exchange.mines.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4AF49B12.8050405@exchange.mines.edu> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: ycsapo@mines.edu Cc: linux-admin 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 >