take mail server offline for maintenance?

[pedro687]

i am doing some backups and work on my email server and would like to temporarily take it offline without disconnecting the server from the network. when i just stop Sendmail emails are not rejected. what do i need to do to actually refuse emails while i'm working ont the system? thanks. pedro

[kikester]

Sorry I don't know much about sendmail myself but do you know any good reading materials for it? Also any graphical front ends for configuration?

[Pras]

Just stop running the sendmail daemon. Depending on which distro you use, the symlinks may be in /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.d or something like that.

kikester: Ksendmail (http://devel-home.kde.org) is a sendmail management system. Search on Tucows Linux, Davecentral and freshmeat for more sendmail configuration utilities