Want to make Sendmail deaf

[cp2000]

I have a Solaris 8 system that is running Sendmail 8.11.6.
I have no need to receive mail at this system. It's only mail function is to send mail out.

How do I tell it to accept only local email to send and not to accept ANYTHING from the outside world.

Thanks for the assist

 

[Morsing]

Just kill the sendmail daemon.

Cheers

Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[cp2000]

Problem is....That kills everything.

I do need to be able to send mail. I just want to stop receiving outside mail

 

[Morsing]

What do you mean by that?

How do you send mail?

Cheers

Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[Rhinokiller]

Quick and easy way to do this is to just route all incomming mail /dev/null using procmail and a global .procmailrc recipe.

There is no God, only 10001010

 

[Morsing]

I still don't understand what you mean by "That kills everything"?

Cheers

Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[cp2000]

Thanks guys, I seem to have resolved the problem.

apparently I did something wrong when I tested the setup after shutting down the sendmail daemon. That has resolved the current problem.

How ever, because I manage several different mail servers, I am interested in suggestion. I thought porcmail was an alternate delivery agent. I would really appreciate if you could expand a little more on that suggestion. It looks like it could help me in dealing with an issue on another system....

Tanks again guys

 

[Rhinokiller]

Make sure procmail installed and it is set as your LDA in your sendmail.mc
FEATURE(local_procmail)
create a global .procmailrc

your file should look like this

FORMAIL = /usr/sbin/formail
SENDMAIL = /usr/sbin/sendmail
SHELL = /bin/sh
MAILDIR = /var/spool/mail

:0
/dev/null
### End of recipe to discard all incomming mail

Note the formail & sendmail statements are not necessary but it's a good habit to include them in all recipes. As your recipes get more complex you will need them in there.




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