From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 7 16:10:05 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA17845 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 16:10:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from ami.tom.computerworks.net (root@AMI.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.95.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA17814 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 16:10:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from bonkers.taronga.com by ami.tom.computerworks.net with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0vWWoc-0021VwC; Sat, 7 Dec 96 19:09 EST Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA14181; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 18:05:48 -0600 Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 18:05:48 -0600 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Message-Id: <199612080005.SAA14181@bonkers.taronga.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp+alias -auto &spurious dialups. Newsgroups: taronga.freebsd.hackers In-Reply-To: <199612071928.UAA22040@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: Organization: none Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199612071928.UAA22040@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch wrote: >Sheesh. sendmail is our default MTA. It's not an ISP-only thing, >even local mail is being passed to sendmail: Yeh, but that'll work without the "sendmail -bd". All that does is provide SMTP service. If you're getting your mail via POP3 or something you don't need a sendmail daemon running.