From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 06:03:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BF7A16A4CE for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 06:03:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0223143D3F for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 06:03:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1BSy3K-000N5H-G1 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 May 2004 14:02:38 +0100 Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i4QD2buf092503 for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 14:02:37 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.10/8.12.6/Submit) id i4QD2bnA092502 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 May 2004 14:02:37 +0100 (BST) Resent-Message-Id: <200405261302.i4QD2bnA092502@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 13:27:07 +0100 From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Dick Davies Message-ID: <20040526122707.GB91911@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20040524141558.GB48389@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20040525143126.GB78314@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20040526084314.GA11303@lb.tenfour> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040526084314.GA11303@lb.tenfour> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Resent-From: jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 14:02:37 +0100 Resent-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1BSy3K-000N5H-G1*zr4uQu6bv0U* Subject: Re: Repeated connections to port 25 with firewall X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 13:03:45 -0000 : When local processes want to mail, they fork n exec a sendmail binary : themselves. : : You shouldn't need a sendmail server running for that. Here is what I have/had in rc.conf #sendmail_enable="no" #sendmail_submit_enable="no" #sendmail_outbound_enable="no" #sendmail_msp_queue_enable="no" And as soon as I restarted after commenting out these lines, root's mailbox got filled with megs of mail from cron. I want the minimum I need to get system mail without leaving an instance of sendmail vulnerable to attack or eating up resources. p.s. What mail reader is good for root mail? Is there anything better at managing system mail than mutt? jm -- My other computer is your Windows box.