Disabling Sendmail - how to?

[minotaur60]

I'm sure this is heresy on this board, but how does one _disable_ Sendmail?

I'm running Mac OS X (10.2.6) which comes with Sendmail installed but OFF by default -- but not now. For whatever reason, Sendmail is ON and tying up ports 25 and 110.

I am attempting to run Kerio's MailServer 5.6 on the same machine with Apache -- and Sendmail. Sendmail's use of ports 25 and 110 is conflicting with startup of Kerio's POP and SMTP services.

There is much documentation and many fora about configuring Sendmail, but so far nothing about how to disable it.

Any suggestions? Any assistance is appreciated.

Kevin

 

[jad]

sendmail doesn't use 110 ... that is POP3 ... you will need to modify your inetd configuration ... POP3 is only run on demand.

to stop sendmail you will need to modify your rc.d or init.d scripts and just remove (comment out) sendmail in those scripts.

 

[onepair]

in red had you could do:
chkconfig --level 2345 sendmail off

otherwise delete the startup scripts in /rc.d/rc#