[99426] in RedHat Linux List
Re: runtime processes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony E. Greene)
Sat Nov 14 07:41:53 1998
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 13:38:34 +0100
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From: "Anthony E. Greene" <agreene@pobox.com>
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At 01:21 1998-11-14 -0500, edwarding wrote:
>sendmail is the mail agent. Turning this off means you will not be able to
>send and receive messages on your unix accounts. (though you can still get
>POP mail if you have a POP client.
As long as sendmail is installed, you can send to anyone and receive from
local users. But you will not be able to receive mail from other machines
unless sendmail (or an equivalent package) is running as a daemon.
Tony
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