From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Max Gribov Subject: Re: sendmail blues Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:08:41 -0500 Message-ID: <1257552521.18857.4197.camel@vader> References: <4AF49B12.8050405@exchange.mines.edu> <1257551495.18857.4195.camel@vader> <4AF4B6FA.1060309@exchange.mines.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4AF4B6FA.1060309@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 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 > >> > > >