From: Kurt Girsch (kurt.girsch@boku.ac.at)
Date: Wed Apr 09 2003 - 04:38:13 EDT
hi admins,
I decided to do switch off sendmail and nothing else!
ys
kurt
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special thanks to:
Lutz Sommerfeld <sls@mara.de>
Hi!
Try postfix instead of sendmail. It has very easy config files and is
more secure, too.
Lutz Sommerfeld
PS: Wir benutzen schon lange keinen Sendmail mehr, weil postifx wirklich
einfacher zu konfigurieren ist.
Beerse Corné <c.beerse@torex-hiscom.nl>
> is there anyone out who can tell me what to, when I want to
> disable sending mail for "normal" users - only root (and maybe
> some special acocunts) should be able to send mails.
Do you realy want to disable all email for 'normal' users? email is used
internally: for example, the results of a `cron` job are send by email.
You can stop outgoing mail for all but root (even for all) but that does not
stop users from sending mail.
>
> I assume to hack the sendmail.cf, but I don't know enough
> about sendmail.cf !!!
See `man sendmail.cf` for local documentation.
Have you checked the sendmail webpages? (http://www.sendmail.org/ or
...com/) I recal they have a bunch of example sendmail.cf files.
An other way to stop users sending mail is to (silently) put their mail in
the bitbucket. See the file /etc/aliases (`man aliases`) to create an alias
for al users and send their mail to /dev/null.
btw: you don't stop users sending email by stopping them using the local
sendmail deamon! Most mail tools can be configured to use an other machine
providing the smtp protocol (or one of the many other e-mail protocols).
Hence, you have to do more to stop users sending mail.
CBee
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########### original posting ###########
On 2 Apr 2003 at 15:16, hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl wrote:
> hi,
>
> is there anyone out who can tell me what to, when I want to
> disable sending mail for "normal" users - only root (and maybe
> some special acocunts) should be able to send mails.
>
> I assume to hack the sendmail.cf, but I don't know enough
> about sendmail.cf !!!
>
> my sendmail-version:
> -------------------------------------
> /usr/sbin/sendmail:
> University of California. All rights reserved.
> including Sendmail, Inc., and the Regents of the
> Copyright (c) 1998 HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY and its licensors,
> version.c 8.11.1 (Berkeley) - Revision - 1.1+JAGae58098 - 28/05/2001
> HP-UX/General Millicode B.11.20.00 (IPF TOT): (MILLI - 05/01/01)
> -------------------------------------
>
> TIA
>
> ys
>
> kurt
>
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Kurt GIRSCH
Zentraler Informatikdienst, Universitaet fuer Bodenkultur Wien
e-mail: kurt.girsch@boku.ac.at WWW: http://zidweb.boku.ac.at/
Phone: (+43 1) 47 654 - 2106 Fax: (+43 1) 47 654 - 2149
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