Hi,

I am using tripwire on a Slackware 10 PC.
System is fresh install so Slackware 10 has all the default
settings:

I'm trying to get tripwire to send email to root without
having to have sendmail running.
(I'm using tripwire 2.3.1-1 with paul herman's patch
from http://www.frenchfries.net/paul/tripwire)

Currently default install of Slackware has sendmail
listening on port25 and queue runner running.

If I disable these services then new mail to
root@localhost doesn't appear in the spool.

If I re-enable sendmail then the new mail appears
in mail spool.

(tripwire --test --email check sends email, but the email
only appears in root if sendmail is running; otherwise the
mail sent doesn't appear in the spool)

I tried:
mail -s "Test" root@localhost
but the message only appears in spool if sendmail
is running or restarted.

Basically, as a minimum, I would like to get mail from
Tripwire without sendmail running. What is the best way
to achieve this with default install of Slack 10?

OR

Have sendmail running but not listening on port 25 for
outside connections so only local mail works.


This system is a single user system that will
eventually be connected to cable modem.

Any suggestions pertaining to this issue would be
appreciated.


Nic