On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 20:55 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote: > Jay Moore wrote: > > And pardon my bitching, but why the f**k do I have to > > hack a shell script to change the startup behavior? IMHO, this is BFU. > > Since you are apparently determined to make that change, you can do it > by simply editing /etc/sysconfig/sendmail and changing the "DAEMON=yes" > to "DAEMON=no" and restart the sendmail service. Then you can start > making note of all the mail-related things that don't work any more > on your system. There are ways to make mail work without that daemon > process, but you have to set up a couple of other things to provide > the necessary functions. Bob & Les, Thanks for your patience with my BS :) I must apologize; I am relatively new to Linux/Fedora, and haven't had to futz with sendmail in a while... I *thought* I remembered a few things that just weren't so, and mis-read a passage in my sendmail Cookbook. You were right, I was wrong. For the record, and anyone else that finds himself trying to get 'smartd' (or other apps that use email notification) to get mail from a private network to the Internet... Two changes are required, both in the '/etc/mail/sendmail.mc' file: 1) enable masquerading - un-comment "MASQUERADE_AS(`mydomain.com')" 2) don't exclude root from re-writes - comment "EXPOSED_USER(`root')" You can test your changes before committing them: # /usr/sbin/sendmail -bt -C/etc/mail/experimental.cf > /tryflags HS > /try esmtp root Thanks, Jay
