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willum
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Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 6:21 am Post subject: Sendmail problem, but sendmail isn't installed

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I'm getting an error message that runs across my console.

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/usr/sbin/sendmail/:can't open port the smtp port (25) on mail

It happens about every 5 minutes. The thing is sendmail isn't installed. I checked every thing thing I could think of crontab, rc.scripts, runlevels, etc, etc. Anyone have any idea why this happens?

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Chaoz
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Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 10:08 am Post subject:

I've got the same "problem". Have you solved it?

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Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 11:09 am Post subject: It's cron

Cron sends mail after it runs. See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=21786 for a few different fixes for the problem. I had success with the MAILTO="" solution, but there are other ways to fix it if that doesn't work for you.

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