[ale] Local email w/o sendmail daemon on RHL 9

[kaboom at gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Bob Toxen wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:55:48PM -0500, Mike Millson wrote:
> > Has anyone figured out how to send email to a local account w/o running
> > the sendmail daemon on Red Hat 9? 
> Weeeeell, edit your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file to cause that POS MSA
> daemon to listen on IP 127.0.0.1 instead of its default 0.0.0.0.

On Red Hat, this is already done for you. By default, both sendmail and
Postfix are bound to loopback only.

Also, on RH you normally don't / can't edit sendmail.cf. The sendmail SysV
init script regenerates sendmail.cf from sendmail.mc automatically, so you
either have to edit sendmail.mc, or else edit /etc/init.d/sendmail to remove 
the autogeneration feature and then edit sendmail.cf....

later,
chris