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timschoeny

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Default installations of Red Hat and most other unix OSes enable sendmail automatically. What is the impact on the OS of turning it off?

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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

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