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From: Richard Levenberg <richardl@ufp.com>
To: robert@chalmers.com.au
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In-reply-to: <33E049E7.15A58874@chalmers.com.au> (message from Robert Chalmers
	on Thu, 31 Jul 1997 18:16:39 +1000)
Subject: Re: My FreeBSD gateway machine is always dialing out!!!
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> Coming into this late, but wondering how your sendmail is set up? Have
> you turned off the (default) half hourly mail delivery check in
> sysconfig?  The other thing that will trigger it is having your
> off-site "default" gateway configured.
Sendmail does not cause it to dial out except when there is mail to send
and I understand that.

I do have my default gateway to the ISP through the modem (tun0) set
up at boot time.  I know that gives it the way to get out but why is 
it trying to get out?

richardl