On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 15:26 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: > To return to the OPs desire for the sendmail service not to run, > it seems to me that there are three scenarios where this might make > sense. [...] > The second scenario, which I imagine is becoming more prevalent, > would be a home system with a server serving a number of laptops. > It is my impression that there are a number of places > where email is used in such a case to communicate between the > machines. You might run an MTA on the server. Running it on the clients is probably overkill. > I'm not sure if sendmail is normally used in these cases. > > The third case is there there is a single machine > collecting email by POP or IMAP and sending email by "direct SMTP", > as you have explained. > I guess in this case it makes sense to turn off sendmail, > though on the other hand I can't see any harm in leaving it running. BTW I think I said earlier that I accepted the need for sendmail because some other stuff assumes it exists. I should have said that the other stuff assumes the sendmail *program* is available, but it doesn't assume there is a sendmail *daemon* actually running. AFAIK you could just turn it off. It's not consuming significant resources so it's not a big deal, but from a security standpoint it's good practice not to run stuff you don't need. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
