Jason Helfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Running both of these at home. Q, though. I am polling my mail from
> my isp via fetchmail. Is it really even necessary to run sendmail as
> a daemon?
Since fetchmail, by default, connects to your listening sendmail daemon,
you would need to reconfigure fetchmail if you decided to turn off the
listening sendmail.
Also, one of sendmail's other functions is to retry failed deliveries
every so often. If you don't run the daemon, then a failed delivery
will be queued, and then never retried again. You should probably run a
cron job that launches "sendmail -q" at some interval if you decide not
to run the daemon.
That being said, I see no problem in leaving the daemon running, if you
simply firewall the SMTP port from external traffic.
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