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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:52:15 +0200
From: Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>
To: Loic Mahe' <mahe@twam.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD and sendmail
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Hey there,

I know this probably isn't the answer you're looking for, but you might
want to take a look at using Postfix.  (/usr/ports/mail/postfix).  I
found it to be a lot more effective than sendmail especially over a
dialup and it doesn't do annoying things like dialup if you check the
mailq.

:)

Cheers,
Marc

On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 12:39:23PM +0200, Loic Mahe' wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to use sendmail with my dialup connection. I looked at the
> FAQ (http://www.fr.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#ISPMAIL)
> and generated my sendmail.cf file.
> Sending mail works, but each time I launch sendmail (at boot time,
> manually (like sendmail -bt) or with mailq), the modem opens the
> connection to my ISP (even if the mail queue is empty). This problem
> seems to occur only on FreeBSD (I asked my question in a french
> mail-related newsgroup and Linux users told me that they have no such
> problem).
> I used tcpdump and found that 2 DNS queries are sent (and
> therefore lauch the modem since resolv.conf lists my ISP's DNS).
> Normally, sendmail uses a ServiceSwitch file to use /etc/hosts instead
> of bind, but is it used on FreeBSD ?
> 
> It is not normal that the modem connects if there is no mail to send.
> 
> Any help is welcome.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Loic/Toulouse, France
> 
> PS : I'm on FreeBSD 3.1 with sendmail 8.9.2


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