From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 7 12:24:17 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA09227 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 12:24:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA09217 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 12:24:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA17262; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 21:23:29 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA22832; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 21:23:28 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id UAA22040; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 20:28:27 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612071928.UAA22040@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: ppp+alias -auto &spurious dialups. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 20:28:26 +0100 (MET) Cc: spaz@u.washington.edu (John Utz) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from John Utz at "Dec 5, 96 10:47:33 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As John Utz wrote: > Yuparoo! It's sendmail! > do we really need it to be on by default? Anybody likely to use it ( ie > ISP's ) would be smart enuf to turn it on and it is just a waste having it > run if it is not configured, right? Sheesh. sendmail is our default MTA. It's not an ISP-only thing, even local mail is being passed to sendmail: j@uriah 1506% mail -s "Just nothing" j < /dev/null Null message body; hope that's ok j@uriah 1507% lastcomm | head -5 sendmail -F j ttyp3 0.00 secs Sat Dec 7 20:26 mail.local -S j __ 0.02 secs Sat Dec 7 20:26 sendmail -S j ttyp3 0.06 secs Sat Dec 7 20:26 sendmail -F j ttyp3 0.00 secs Sat Dec 7 20:26 mail - j ttyp3 0.02 secs Sat Dec 7 20:26 -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)