From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 28 04:00:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D97BC106564A for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:00:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90FC78FC14 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:00:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so343066ele.13 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:00:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=LI2AzzenqwjNm+JzxkKBAcUlfQZeRnAKVqevCq8qJQA=; b=ViqkrnL8oDVC3tvi4vAWXBZx/bHirZvqvCC+UPFjq7WD8lFB1nXfBUQ7hf5d+9vXQM q3E7xVgJcrlvGeCmoysByZu4vJO2V4TG67catABkd81eOYecTdIsIo8UWCX6GQDVZZFI qXFOvZ+CX138jabUAxucl5jmGt5O+bOzCspxY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=GrnM6/lXQ4POGCyX8lT9cfM5Q7miKVoB7rL57GCLRt6ptXgLmPZt6CSq9FrHxggwpz 8Dj1JnNOsjihzQP5dwpaP0WkwO4wKRG9DeLClFtsip88BO55NNbQ/106SvOt5l6w60uk TbCU2mU/njYJ4sow9bnzvXe6t8gGmSBVewMw4= Received: by 10.151.44.18 with SMTP id w18mr5134833ybj.66.1222574458585; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:00:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.182.18 with HTTP; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:00:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <340a29540809272100of501fb2pd0c0c7a915ed1ae2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:00:58 -0600 From: "Andrew Falanga" To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" In-Reply-To: <20080928022040.GC36499@shepherd> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <340a29540809271827r57503ca7o9f8916a7d5fade8@mail.gmail.com> <20080928022040.GC36499@shepherd> Subject: Re: The consequences of turning off sendmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:00:59 -0000 On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Sahil Tandon wrote: > Andrew Falanga wrote: > >> This question comes from complete ignorance about this stuff (what >> happens when turning off sendmail), but if I turn off sendmail will >> system messages still get delivered? Also, I'm going to be using this >> box as a web server and I'm using Joomla!. If I turn this off, will I >> still get the notifications that new users have signed on, etc.? I'd >> like to turn it off because the box doesn't sit inside of a fully >> qualified domain (it sits inside a 192.168.x/24 network), but will >> host web services for www.whitneybaptist.org. Obviously, requests >> sent to 72.24.34.252 on port 80 are forwarded to this box (actually, >> internally it's 192.168.2.23). Also, (for those who have endured >> helping me work through the issues with our mail server) until I get >> things worked out with DNS this new server will not be hosting e-mail >> for this domain (whitneybaptist.org), that's temporarily being done at >> google mail. >> >> So, basically, what sort of trouble am I going to get into by turning >> off sendmail? Also, I think I'm going to implement DNS, an internal >> thing, to make this box happy and then point the resolver to use the >> Internet DNS servers for everything else. > > You can turn off the Sendmail daemon so that it does not actually listen > for incoming connections or act as an MTA in the conventional sense. > But local utilities like cron can still invoke the /usr/sbin/sendmail > command to send you notifications. > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-December/107610.html > Thanks, just wanted to make sure before doing it. Andy