Re: [SLE] "send only" with postfix

From: Carlos E. R. (robin1.listas_at_tiscali.es)
Date: 10/12/03

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    Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 02:20:53 +0200 (CEST)
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    The 03.10.11 at 12:01, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:

    > > What is your hangup with smtp??
    >
    > There's an unnecessary open port.

    Not unless you tell it to listen to the internet device. If you forget, as
    you will be running a Firewall (which you should in any case), this will
    not allow connections to it - unless, again, if you open it explicitly.

    > There's an unnecessary process.

    Yo can configure it in Yast for "no permanent network connection" in which
    case it will not be up till you call sendmail manually. Of course, this
    means that internal mail will not work (no local smtp), and that if the
    outgoing mail can't be sent for some reason, it might not retry, and you
    might not know it - because the process dies.

    In any case, a process that is not doing anything is swapped out if
    the memory is needed. 

    -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson
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