From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 28 01:27:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9BC91065689 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:27:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f17.google.com (mail-gx0-f17.google.com [209.85.217.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63FAE8FC15 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:27:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: by gxk10 with SMTP id 10so9408186gxk.19 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:27:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=U+CeNFc5zlZfYyo3wTxwJ/XvG90KrmorAkiD/Yrxx48=; b=erSqvrL92a5LdDVwtkZRU1FfUGzaTB0XmqPB4K+Rxd/i0VVJ+iJd4yRRI2HIQyDUga 0kEpt1ulN4GvB0nyrERwYOHIOryi41nwHzXLgI45g6yjLupQs4VDnjqpudTxm+FAWMNB yvUNfnKpzdncxhCrb9TJ0BW9KL6pxPvdERvds= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=HDJUxiGQh4XgrejOyofS1l2IifVM0CTBxLLllclta4636uGcozwy+alYbGsxWYIqfT DSV02hF6Y4q0whuMMkRSoCemXebq2Y5WprITWSq1h6QutiTOCY8hTBFMmV7mG58mTa0B /9v2zZcnkJitihr81zR3Y8sHXgwrnjPbmTx3A= Received: by 10.151.44.18 with SMTP id w18mr4913631ybj.224.1222565266281; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:27:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.182.18 with HTTP; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:27:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <340a29540809271827r57503ca7o9f8916a7d5fade8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:27:46 -0600 From: "Andrew Falanga" To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: The consequences of turning off sendmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:27:47 -0000 This question comes from complete ignorance about this stuff (what happens when turning off sendmail), but if I turn off sendmail will system messages still get delivered? Also, I'm going to be using this box as a web server and I'm using Joomla!. If I turn this off, will I still get the notifications that new users have signed on, etc.? I'd like to turn it off because the box doesn't sit inside of a fully qualified domain (it sits inside a 192.168.x/24 network), but will host web services for www.whitneybaptist.org. Obviously, requests sent to 72.24.34.252 on port 80 are forwarded to this box (actually, internally it's 192.168.2.23). Also, (for those who have endured helping me work through the issues with our mail server) until I get things worked out with DNS this new server will not be hosting e-mail for this domain (whitneybaptist.org), that's temporarily being done at google mail. So, basically, what sort of trouble am I going to get into by turning off sendmail? Also, I think I'm going to implement DNS, an internal thing, to make this box happy and then point the resolver to use the Internet DNS servers for everything else. Thanks for any help, Andy -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?