topic Re: No inbound mails in Operating System - HP-UX

No inbound mails

Joey Sta. Cruz III — Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:27:05 GMT

Hi,

Would anyone know how to configure sendmail not to accept inbound mails aside from removing entry on the aliases file.

We have one machine here that we want to perform outbound mails only and no inbound mails.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Joey

Re: No inbound mails

Craig Rants — Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:32:59 GMT

Joey,
You can turn it off and you will still be able to send outbound

/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop

Then turn it off at boot

mv /sbin/rc2.d/S40sendmail /sbin/rc2.d/s540sendmail

Good Luck,
C

Re: No inbound mails

David Lodge — Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:33:00 GMT

Kill it off - sendmail is only needed to recieve mails, not to send then. It isn't even needed to route mails internally to the server.

dave

Re: No inbound mails

David Lodge — Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:37:15 GMT

Note, the best way to disable sendmail is to edit /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs and set SENDMAIL_SERVER to 0

dave

Re: No inbound mails

Marco Paganini — Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:47:50 GMT

Hello

You may just disable sendmail (as explained by other contributors). But be advised that your systems will NOT be able to receive any kind of 'remote' mail! If you have only one server, it should be fine since programs call sendmail directly to deliver mail. However, if you have multiple servers on the same 'internal' environment that exchange mail, you may have a problem.

Regards,
Paga

Re: No inbound mails

Robin Wakefield — Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:11:24 GMT

Hi,

I would actually edit the /sbin/init.d/sendmail script and remove the "-bd" switch from the sendmail line. That way, the sendmail process will be running in "queue process mode", so that if your outbound mails stall for any reason, they will be retried.

If not, put "/usr/lib/sendmail -q" in cron to run every 15 or 30 minutes.

Rgds, Robin.