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[will]

Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On 3/5/02, 1:03:54 PM, will <will at hellacool.co.uk> wrote regarding Re: 
> [Gllug] mail:
> 
>>mailq: warning: Mail system is down -- accessing queue directly
>>Mail queue is empty
>>
> 
>><kicks self>
>><starts postfix>
>><reads mail>
>>
> 
>>Will :-)  (sheepish)
>>
> 
> Baaa.  One nice thing about Exim, in contrast, is that it doesn't need a 
> daemon running to deliver local mail.  And can run out of inetd, which is 
> good for a home machine and frees up resources.  But it is more complex 
> to configure than Postfix and potentially less secure.

On my Redhat 7.2 machine (here) I can send local mail without having to 
have the server running.  I think this probebly why I didn't check, I am 
so used to it just working.

Will.




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