SMTP disable

[kcw]

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

Best regards
Sunny Lo

[Jeeshan]

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.

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[kcw]

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

[Jeeshan]

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