19 Sep
2011
19 Sep
'11
9:29 p.m.
Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
I'm running centos on a "limited" environment. Is it ok to turn off sendmail and run without it. Are there issues with doing that or is all Ok.
Mail delivery can still work with sendmail turned off. The daemon is just there to receive mail.
This guy explains it better than I can:
http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/sysadmin/sendmail.html
There's no reason to turn the MTA on unless you're running a mail server. Non-mail servers should just have a cron job flushing the submission queue just in case, but the MTA itself doesn't need to run.
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