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Special Considerations

Configuring E-Mail on Instant Capacity Systems

Configuring Your Server to Send but Not Receive E-Mail

For security reasons, some organizations do not wish to allow incoming mail. If you want your Instant Capacity system to be capable of only sending e-mail, and not receiving e-mail, complete the following configuration procedure:

Step 1. To prevent the sendmail daemon from starting up again when your system reboots, edit the /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs file, changing the value of SENDMAIL_SERVER to 0:

vi /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs

#########################################

# Mail configuration. See sendmail(1m) #

#########################################

#

#BSD’s popular message handling system

# SENDMAIL_SERVER:	Set to 1 if this is a mail server
#	and should run the sendmail deamon.
# SENDMAIL_SERVER_NAME:	If this is not a mail server, but a
#	client being served by another
#	system, then set this variable to
#	the name of the mail server system
#	name so that site hiding can be
#	performed.
#

export SENDMAIL_SERVER=0 export SENDMAIL_SERVER_NAME=

Step 2. To immediately stop the server from receiving e-mail, kill the active sendmail daemon by executing the following command:

/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop

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