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Sam Varshavchik wrote:
| Kevin Fries writes: | |> However, nowadays, most people get their email via either pop or |> imap. In those cases, you need MUA capabilities, not MTA |> capabilities. By telling cron to send to me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I |> no longer need sendmail installed locally. | | | Really? Cron now includes a complete built-in SMTP client? | Think about it, there is no difference sending to a local smtp sender as it is to send to a remote smtp sender. If it used the local inject (i.e. the /usr/bin/sendmail -t command) qmail would break the system since it does not have a sendmail command. It doesn't break. So, it sends to the smtp address given it. If you simply tell it root, it assumes root@localhost, and contacts port 25 on the localhost. If you give it a fqdn, it uses the standard resolver. I do not run sendmail on any machine, and postfix on the mail server only. I get my daily logwatch messages, and other notification from cron on all machines.
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