stop ZM from sending out ANY kind of email

JungleGeorge · Post by **JungleGeorge** » Thu May 06, 2010 3:25 am

We have this ZM installation running on a small LAN with only 2 computers:
1. Running only ZM (server)
2. A desktop

Very simple, nothing elaborate.

On the ZM system the "/var/log/mail.log" contains a ton of messages like:

...
May 5 20:08:42 ZM1 nullmailer[14286]: smtp: Failed: Connect failed
May 5 20:08:42 ZM1 nullmailer[815]: Sending failed: Connection failed
May 5 20:08:42 ZM1 nullmailer[815]: Delivery complete, 469 message(s) remain.
...

We don't want ZM to send out any email messages at all.
How do you stop ZM from send out all the email messages?

kingofkya · Post by **kingofkya** » Thu May 06, 2010 4:27 am

if you have a mail server installed its just sending messages about syslog stuff (its really harmless) you should just have to unistall or stop postfix or whatever your mta is.

JungleGeorge · Post by **JungleGeorge** » Thu May 06, 2010 7:19 am

It looks like "/usr/sbin/nullmailer-send" was sending out these messages and the following files contained those logs:
/var/log/syslog
/var/log/mail.info
/var/log/mail.log
/var/log/mail.err
/var/log/mail.warn

So I uninstalled the "nullmailer" package.
The "/var/log/mail.*" files are not a problem any more.
The "/var/log/syslog" file is also much less chatty.

Thanks kingofkya.