Stopping mailx

[Timothy P. Jackson]

I am currently doing some testing of a program that was written by someone else that uses mailx. I would just like to turn off mailx so that it will not send messages out while I am testing.

Is mailx part of sendmail? Can I just stop sendmail and that will turn off mailx?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Tim

[Pete Randall]

Tim,

Yes, you could just stop sendmail but that's going to stop all messages. Couldn't you just comment out the mailx commmands?


Pete

[renarios]

Hi Tim,

A possibility is to create a global variable like MAIL_TARGET and give it the value of your own email address incase of testing and change it to the old email address in case of production. That way you can change it one place in the script.

Hope it helps,

Renarios

[Suraj Singh_1]

Hi,

Stopping sendmail will stop all the communication through this machine. So u are sure that no other application uses sendmail, you may stop the sendmail daemon. Else the best thing (if u are unaware) is to COMMENT out the line containing "mailx".

Rgds

[Florian Heigl (new acc)]

I'd simply use an alias for mailx like
alias mailx="echo mail with parameters $* >> /tmp/mailx.runs"

mailx is not really a component of sendmail (mail transfer agent), but just a small email program (mail user agent), so disabling it by the shell's means should be the easiest solution.

[harry d brown jr]

Stopping sendmail will NOT STOP mailx from performing it's duty.

Try it:

[root@vpart3 /etc/mail]# /sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
Sendmail pid is 24536
Killing sendmail
Please wait .....
Sendmail killed.
[root@vpart3 /etc/mail]# ps -ef| ux2dos | uuencode bdf.txt|mailx -m -stest hbrown@devnull.com
[root@vpart3 /etc/mail]# ps -ef | grep sendmail
root 24593 2005 1 09:04:42 ttyp3 0:00 grep sendmail
[root@vpart3 /etc/mail]#


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[Pete Randall]

Thanks Harry - I had a nagging doubt in the back of my mind about that so I just finished testing it so I could come back and correct my blunder, but you beat me to it!


Pete

[harry d brown jr]

Pete,

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