timschoeny Posted April 4, 2003 Posted April 4, 2003 Default installations of Red Hat and most other unix OSes enable sendmail automatically. What is the impact on the OS of turning it off? Quote
Bruno Posted April 4, 2003 Posted April 4, 2003 Red hat and Mandrake use Postfix in stead of sendmail. So you can disable the service no problem Quote
Scot Posted April 5, 2003 Posted April 5, 2003 I'm no Linux expert, but Sendmail is a service (or daemon) that's designed to handle outgoing email. Primary usage is in providing a generic mail transport for things like Web forms and such. While it is used for a variety of other things, if you're talking about a desktop Linux installation, I can think of no reason why turning it off would affect you -- on any version of Linux. If this installation is running a Web server, the question takes on a lot more shadings and can't be answered easily without more input from you.Anyone with deeper Linux experience, please post away and provide add'l info.-- Scot Quote
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