Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 10:33:21 -0400 From: "William D. Freeman" <wdf@picusnet.com> To: Loic Mahe' <mahe@twam.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and sendmail Message-ID: <38FDC3B1.B8FB1AF5@picusnet.com> References: <38FD8CDB.D6FF2653@twam.com>
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You probably have PPP configured for Dial on Demand or somthing and it always wants to feel usful. I have sendmail setup to use my ISP as a smart host, but i don't have that problem. Mostly because i don't feel the need to make my modem dial for me everytime i want to send a mail (i don' send mail very often. it's usualy just a reply to somthing else). 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 -- William D. Freeman [wdf@picusnet.com] http://members.xoom.com/EvilGNU -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GU d? s+:++ a--- C++ UB+++ P+ L- E W++ N- o-- K---- w--- O---- M- V-- PS--- PE++ Y-- PGP---- t+ 5-- X++ R tv b+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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