Request for assistance

[ron.peterson at yellowbank.com]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 11:19:08PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
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> You can also have a daemon listening, but only accepting connections
> from localhost.

Cw localhost, you mean?  Or is there a way to tell sendmail to only
listen on 127.0.0.1?

The machine in question uses iptables to block everything but incoming
ssh.  Only the local machine can initiate any other type of connection.
So the point may be moot, but I'm a curious cat, and like to know how
things work.

On that note, I'm still wonding how to get debian stable to run in cron
mode - i.e. not run as a daemon.  The 'proper' way to do this, as far as
I can figure, is to edit this section in /etc/mail/sendmail.conf:

# QUEUE_MODE="${DAEMON_MODE}";  Keyword  SMTP queue runner
#       daemon:  Run as standalone daemon
#       cron:    Run from crontab
#       none:    No queue runner (ie, nullclient/smarthost)
#
# NOTE: for the nonce, QUEUE_MODE="none" is *NOT* supported !!!
#
QUEUE_MODE="cron";

After editing this file, then run /usr/share/sendmail/update_sendmail.

However, if I do this, jobs start to pile up in
/var/spool/mqueue-client, and never get sent.

???

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