Hello,
While participating in the recent thread, "Delivering mail through nmh
via SMTP...", I decided to check my mts.conf and discovered that mts
wasn't actually configured as "sendmail/pipe" as I had thought (probably
got wiped away when I upgraded); so I started wondering why the change
hadn't impacted me at all.
In my mts.conf I had the following:
mts: smtp
servers: localhost
Yet, as I said in the previous thread, I have nothing listening on port
587:
$ telnet localhost 587
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
Trying ::1...
telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
Yet, whenever I send email, it does in fact get injected into my MTA's
queue via a pipe! How is that possible and why isn't it attempting to
connect to port 587?
So I decided to use ktrace (similar to strace on Linux) to figure out if
it was even reading mts.conf, and it does not even open the file.
I ran:
ktrace -d comp
Composed a message and then at the "What now?" pormpt I typed send and
let it rip and the email arrived as expected, but MTA logs indicate it
was submitted via pipe sendmail interface.
Given this, I'm curious how it could even be working since it isn't
reading my mts.conf?
Thanks,
Andy