No inbound mails

[Joey Sta. Cruz III]

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

[Craig Rants · Accepted solution]

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

[David Lodge]

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

[David Lodge]

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

dave

[Marco Paganini]

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

[Robin Wakefield]

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.