topic Re: SMTP disable in Operating System - HP-UX

SMTP disable

kcw — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:52:52 GMT

Dear all,
Can we disable the SMTP daemon on a HPUX-11.23 system?? many thanks

Best regards
Sunny Lo

Re: SMTP disable

Jeeshan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:57:11 GMT

actually sendmail daemon has start the SMTP. SMTP is a protocol which connects on 25 no. port.

if you stop the sendmail daemon SMTP port will down.

Re: SMTP disable

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:59:48 GMT

Shalom,

/etc/rc.config.d/mailservs

Change the first variable to 0.

You can still send outbound mail with the sendmail queue runner

sendmail -q

SEP

Re: SMTP disable

kcw — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:07:41 GMT

Dear SEP,
Thanks for your quick response, so, after setting the value of "SENDMAIL_SERVER" to 0 in "mailservs" config file, can i stop the daemon?? with what command?? many thanks

Best Regards
KCW

Re: SMTP disable

Jeeshan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:20:52 GMT

stopping that command in /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs file this will prevent to start the sendmail daemon.

yes, you can now apply the command

#/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop