[ale] Local email w/o sendmail daemon on RHL 9

[Mike Millson]

Has anyone figured out how to send email to a local account w/o running
the sendmail daemon on Red Hat 9? 

This is sendmail v8.12.x. There is something called a Mail Submission
Agent (MSA) and now there is a submit.mc in addition to sendmail.mc.
Also, there is something called sm-client that starts when sendmail
starts. As if things weren't confusing enough...

When I enter the following:
/usr/lib/sendmail -v -t <<f
From: localaccount
To: localaccount
Subject: test
f

I get:
localaccount... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
localaccount... Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]

I can see the message is queued up in /var/spool/clientmqueue/

Then if I start sendmail (service sendmail start) the mail gets
delivered to /var/mail/localaccount.

Is there no way to send mail to a local account w/o having sendmail
started?

Mike