I think I was sniffed?

[Mike Bilow]

If you are using Sendmail to send mail, then any failed attempts will be
placed in the queue.  Unless there is a Sendmail daemon instance running,
nothing will ever be taken out of the queue once it is placed there.  It
is possible to have a Sendmail daemon running just for queue processing
(with the "-q" switch) but not SMTP listening (omit the "-bd" switch), but
this is a very unusual configuration.

-- Mike


On 2000-07-11 at 10:09 -0400, Derek Martin wrote:

> More importantly, you simply don't need it.  You only NEED sendmail
> running if you are receiving mail at your local machine directly via SMTP
> from other SMTP servers. If you're on a laptop, it's nearly a certainty
> that that is NOT the case. 
> 
> To send mail out from your local machine, you do NOT need to run sendmail.
> Mailers which need it will run a copy of sendmail specifically to send the
> messages out, and then die.  Why waste system resources AND add potential
> vulnerability to attack when you don't need to?


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