From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 12 17:15:31 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9892A37B502; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:15:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slave (Studded@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA20714; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:12:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:12:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n37.san.rr.com To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Peter Wemm , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf In-Reply-To: <96598.971389628@critter> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <200010122222.e9CMMmG35106@netplex.com.au>, Peter Wemm writes: > > >IMHO, having sendmail *off* in rc.conf should mean "no sendmail at all", > >not having /usr/sbin/sendmail -q still being run behind your back. > > > >The daily processing shows the mailq already anyway. If you don't at least > >occasionally read them, then you're not using the tools available to you. > > Uhm, and how would you get the mailq output if mail just piles up ? > > I think having rc.conf settings be: "off", "on", and "outgoing only" > is the solution here. Anyone sufficiently motivated to change the mail settings (aliases, sendmail.cf, etc.) to actually make outgoing mail work is also sufficiently motivated to change sendmail_flags to -q30m if they really need to. Matt's point that mail to outside addresses is not likely to work without twiddling is well taken. Doug -- "The dead cannot be seduced." - Kai, "Lexx" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message