Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:52:15 +0200 From: Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org> To: Loic Mahe' <mahe@twam.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and sendmail Message-ID: <20000419135215.O36881@draenor.org> In-Reply-To: <38FD8CDB.D6FF2653@twam.com>; from mahe@twam.com on Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 12:39:23PM %2B0200 References: <38FD8CDB.D6FF2653@twam.com>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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