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Date:      Mon, 2 Feb 2004 21:12:38 +0000
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Didier Wiroth <didier.wiroth@mcesr.etat.lu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: conf/62230: log-in-vain issues it's msg every time 'mail'command is used.
Message-ID:  <20040202211238.GD67671@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <12206fc53.fc5312206@etat.lu>
References:  <12206fc53.fc5312206@etat.lu>

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On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 08:32:30PM +0100, Didier Wiroth wrote:
> Hi,
> I thought I would share my experience, with log_in_vain. :-))
>=20
> When setting:
> sendmail_flags=3D"NO"
>=20
> Sendmail only listens to 127.0.0.1
>=20
> I only need sendmail to send daily/weekly/monthly reports. Every time the=
 security report is sent, I have these entries too:
> > Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:113 from 127.0.0.1:49161 flags:0x02
> > Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:113 from 127.0.0.1:49163 flags:0x02
>=20
> There are not hundreds of entries of course only 6 or something depending=
 of the quantity of sent mails

If you add:

    define(`confTO_IDENT', `0')dnl

to your /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc and rebuild and reinstall you sendmail
config in the usual way, it will stop sendmail(8) trying to use the
ident service at all.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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