[lug] linuxconf and sendmail config

[D. Stimits]

dan radom wrote:
> 
> ok.  this looks like you're not really using sendmail to host a mail domain, rather then to pull mail from a pop3d to your machine...something along the lines of fetchmail.  is that right?  if so fetchmail can deliver mail directly to a MDA like procmail which can then filter it based on receipes (rules).  if that's the case there's no reason to run sendmail at all.  sendmail will invoke itself once to send outgoing emails and then close, so outgoing mail isn't an issue.

I don't know what Scott is using, I personally only use sendmail
internally. On occasion, I run fetchmail manually to get a backup copy
of email from my ISP. Normally my MUA is pointed directly at my ISP's
pop3 and smtp.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> dan
> 
> > Can somebody here tell me if there is a simple way to test for mail
> > relay from another ip address, via something like telnet to port 25? Is
> > there a simple command line I could use? If so, we could arrange to help
> > test each other's machine in private. My saving grace here, even if
> > sendmail is lying and doing relay, is that it is completely blocked to
> > everywhere but the one ip from my ISP.
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