Re: Sendmail hole

From: Steven Langdale (Langdale_Steven@PERKINS.COM)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 07:44:04 EST

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Simon

I was under impression that even if you only have outgoing mail but want it
a bit more reliable, i.e will queue mails up if the destination is down,
you need sendmail running.

Is this correct?

Thanks

Steven

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If you don't actually have incoming email, then there is no good reason to
run the sendmail daemon; you can send outgoing mail without it, and that
reduces your exposure considerably.

If you need to receive mail, then you need sendmail or an equivalent
running. That's a business decision, not a technical one.

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