Re: [cobalt-developers] Shutting down SMTP

["H.P. Stroebel" <hpstr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric Marcussen schrieb:

> My question has two parts:
>         1)  If we shut down the SMTP,, even though no one uses it, would it have
> an effect on our sites??

yes.

notifications sent by cron jobs or cobalt functions for example will not
be delivered any more.

users will not be able to receive mail on your box, as SMTP is used for
receiving mail from other hosts as well.

>         2) How do we shut it down??

/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop		(temporarily)

for shutting it down completely, even after a reboot, you must delete
the symbolic links pointing to /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail in the several
runlevel directories unter /etc/rc.d. no good idea, though.

you might consider using spamshield, a little perl script (search
www.google.com) that can prevent even spam from local users.



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