Re: How to configure sendmail for dial on demand operation ?

[Gerd Bavendiek <bav@rw.sni.de>]

Torsten Hilbrich writes:
 > Gerd Bavendiek schrieb am Sun, 31 May 1998 17:24:30 +0200 (CEST):
 > >
 > > Hi,
 > > My box is connected to my ISP via an ISDN router (Ascend pipeline),
 > > which does dial on demand. I don't want sendmail to establish
 > > connections in the background. The mail processing shall be delayed
 > > until I explicitly make a connection.
 >
 > If you don't need to receive mail via smtp, just remove sendmail from
 > the inetd.conf or the /etc/rd.*d/ directories.  Assuming, that it is
 > started using the SysV init scripts, just issue the following command:
 >
 >      update-rc.d -f sendmail remove
 >
 > to prevent its invocation on next startup.  (BTW: Is there a way for
 > doing this that will survive the next sendmail update?)
 >

I do need a running sendmail.

Thanks to Cleto Pescia <cleto@e-link.ch> who pointed me to
http://oliva.home.ml.org/diald-win-e.html I got a running
configuration.

Kind regards

Gerd



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