From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yuri Csapo Subject: Re: sendmail blues Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 16:53:30 -0700 Message-ID: <4AF4B6FA.1060309@exchange.mines.edu> References: <4AF49B12.8050405@exchange.mines.edu> <1257551495.18857.4195.camel@vader> Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------090909050102090606030307" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1257551495.18857.4195.camel@vader> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Max Gribov Cc: Yuri Csapo , linux-admin --------------090909050102090606030307 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 >> > -- Yuri Csapo Academic Computing & Networking Colorado School of Mines CT-256 Phone: (303) 273-3503 Fax: (303) 273-3475 Email: ycsapo@mines.edu Please use the following link to open a service request: http://helpdesk.mines.edu =========================================== With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster --------------090909050102090606030307 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset="utf-8"; name="ycsapo.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="ycsapo.vcf" begin:vcard fn:Yuri Csapo n:Csapo;Yuri org:Colorado School of Mines;CCIT email;internet:ycsapo@mines.edu title:System Administrator tel;work:(303) 273-3503 x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard --------------090909050102090606030307--