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Cheap sendmail setup

macosxhints – Set up sendmail to run in send-only mode

If you are going to not blame sendmail, then there are two ways in which we can administer this medication. The first is to edit the /System -> Library -> StartupItems -> Sendmail -> sendmail startup script in order to use the following commands to start up sendmail:
/usr/sbin/sendmail
-OdontBlamesendmail=GroupWritableDirPathSafe -bd -q1h
/usr/sbin/sendmail
-OdontBlamesendmail=GroupWritableDirPathSafe
-C /etc/mail/submit.cf -q1h

This does a pretty good job. However, some of the other commands…