Need help on sendmail configuration

[Ganesan R]

Hi all,

I need to configure mail box for a user in which user can send outgoing mails. But incoming mails should be blocked. How do we do that?

Thanks in advance.

[whiteknight]

Hi Ganesh,

To disable incoming mail and enable outgoing mail:

1. Set an export to disable the sendmail daemon on system startup:

SENDMAIL_SERVER=0 in /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs file

2. Set up a batch job to queue for messages that have been sent back
to the message queue by adding the following entry to the
cronjob.root file:

5 * * * * /usr/sbin/sendmail -q >/dev/null 2>&1



WK
p/s: please assign point

[whiteknight]

Ganesh,


Solution can be found in ITRC technical knowledge base

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en&docId=emr_na-c01024101-1



WK

[Ganesan R]

Hi Whiteknight,

I could not access the link which you have specified above. Can you attach the content of the link as attachment?

For your info, I want to restrict the incoming mails only for a specific user not for all the users.

Thanks in advance.

[Dennis Handly]

>I could not access the link which you have specified above. Can you attach the content of the link as attachment?

He can not. This would violate the copyright (and be throwing away Mark Hurd's money :-).

You need a support contract to read it.

[Dennis Handly]

A follow up about my last message. Read Clay's reply about accessing the Knowledge Base:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1153232

[Prasanth Vattoly]

Hi ganesh.

I feel the send-mail configuration is complex through command line.
I used to configure sendmail with a tool " WEBMIN" , which make it easy. give an web interface server configuration.

The tool is free downloadable. hope that you can get it from net.


regards
Prasanth

[Tim Nelson]

Simply shut off the sendmail deamon as Whiteknight suggested.

To process sent mails that ended up in the queue for some reason add cron entry as suggested to process every 5, 10 or 15 minutes.

[Aashique]

Hi,
To block your incoming mail just block your incoming pop3 port from /etc/services file.

then, /etc/mail/relay-domains you can block your local IP from there.also /etc/mail/access file you can reject the domain.

Thanks & Regards

A. Aashique