sm-client and sending mail

Is sm-client needed to send mail locally? Here is the thing ... I have
many early 8.x sendmail boxes that have no submit.cf, and no
clientmqueue directory, but they send mail fine from local accounts -
root for sure because cron notification works, and others seem to work
fine also. New distributions of sendmail are 8.12 an3 8.13 which don't
use suid on the sendmail binary which is what i want, but with 8.13
and sgid only, is there a way to have sendmail open at port 25 and
able to send mail locally (really just from root for cron jobs mostly)
with NO sm-client, submit.cf and clientmqueue?

TIA.
philc

Re: sm-client and sending mail

I need to mention that I do have the original MC file these configs
were created with. Eventually I need to recreate them, but for now I
need to know which parts of the sendmail.cf control this. I know there
is a MAILER(local) directive in MC, but what lines does that create in
the sendmail.cf :-)

On Oct 24, 8:31 am, Phil wrote:
> Is sm-client needed to send mail locally? Here is the thing ... I have
> many early 8.x sendmail boxes that have no submit.cf, and no
> clientmqueue directory, but they send mail fine from local accounts -
> root for sure because cron notification works, and others seem to work
> fine also. New distributions of sendmail are 8.12 an3 8.13 which don't
> use suid on the sendmail binary which is what i want, but with 8.13
> and sgid only, is there a way to have sendmail open at port 25 and
> able to send mail locally (really just from root for cron jobs mostly)
> with NO sm-client, submit.cf and clientmqueue?
>
> TIA.
> philc

Re: sm-client and sending mail

> and sgid only, is there a way to have sendmail open at port 25 and
> able to send mail locally (really just from root for cron jobs mostly)
> with NO sm-client, submit.cf and clientmqueue?

Hmm, look into:

sendmail -Am -v -oi -t < message
-or-
sendmail -v -odi -C/etc/mail/sendmail.cf -oi -t < message

ska