Re: simple mail question.. no flames please

[Andrew Pinski <pinskia@physics.uc.edu>]

On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 08:16 , Rommel, Florian wrote:

> ok i have a linux box running some monitoring stuff that sends me an 
> alert whenever something happens via email with this command:
> /usr/bin/printf "ALERT SOMEALERT" | /bin/mail -s "ALERT" 
> rommel@quartal.com
> and it works fine with no sendmail running... now, i tried the same 
> thing under OBSD 3.0 with sendmail disabled and it gives no error but 
> also doesnt send anything (i did change the path to the mail command to 
> /usr/bin/mail) and if i have sendmail enabled just as the basics 
> install (enable it in the rc file) i get a user unknown...do i HAVE to 
> configure sendmail to get just a simple mail message sent?..... why is 
> it working then under linux just fine even though sendmail IS 
> disabled...... anyway any light into this darkness would be 
> appreciated..
>
> //Florian

Because sendmail has changed how it works.

Sendmail now sends mail to a queue and then delivers it on to its 
destination.

It is this way so sendmail can run as nonroot.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski