Is there a way to reject all external (incoming) mail and only forward
mail from internal agents/daemons like cron, etc. to an administrative
user on the primary mail server in the same domain?

I'm running Solaris 5.10 with sendmail 8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6

Thanks,

Jack

Jack unleashed the infinite monkeys on 28/09/2006 21:06 producing:
> Is there a way to reject all external (incoming) mail and only forward
> mail from internal agents/daemons like cron, etc. to an administrative
> user on the primary mail server in the same domain?
>
> I'm running Solaris 5.10 with sendmail 8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6

A number of options, including only binding sendmail to loopback, or
pointing the submission agent at the primary mail server (which is the
approach I've taken, as it means one less program running).

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In comp.mail.sendmail Jack <jlauman@nwcascades.com>:
> Is there a way to reject all external (incoming) mail and only forward
> mail from internal agents/daemons like cron, etc. to an administrative
> user on the primary mail server in the same domain?

> I'm running Solaris 5.10 with sendmail 8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6

This is the default on many Linux distro regarding sendmail
setup, just receive from localhost:

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl

(sendmail.mc), generate a new .cf with of m4 and restart
sendmail.

Good luck

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