Brian's Newbie question of the day

[Jason D. Runyan Lists Account]

Your mail will be lost if it doesn't happen to arrive when it you run it from cron.  You don't need 
to run it every ten minutes though to transfer mail sent from the system.  Most mail programs 
actually call the sendmail binary to send mail.  I would just take great care in compiling 
sendmail, and run it as a daemon with tight restrictions in the cf/mc file.

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Jason D. Runyan
NITC USDA Contractor
Systems Administrator

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Brian Densmore 
To: KCLUG (E-mail) 
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 16:17
Subject: Brian's Newbie question of the day

If I take my sendmail server out of daemon mode and have cron run it every 10 minutes, so as to 
enhance system security. What happens if someone tries to send mail to the hosted domains during 
that time? Will some application "wake" up sendmail to receive or does it go into that blackhole of 
failed mail delivery? I don't have a mail forwarder anywhere.

Thanks, 
Brian Densmore
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Brian

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