From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 14 06:52:53 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 4596616A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 06:52:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from brain.otenet.gr (brain.otenet.gr [195.170.0.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FC9F43D31 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 06:52:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (aris.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.226])i6E6qVbX002654; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:52:37 +0300 Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (orion [127.0.0.1]) i6E6si0x046122; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:54:44 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost)i6E6sgR1046121; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:54:42 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:54:42 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Eric Crist Message-ID: <20040714065442.GA46016@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <20040714033550.GA4223@gothmog.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040714033550.GA4223@gothmog.gr> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: closer, no cigar. 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, 14 Jul 2004 06:52:53 -0000 Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:33:51 -0500 From: Eric Crist Subject: Re: closer, no cigar. On Tuesday 13 July 2004 22:19, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > The first of these processes is sendmail started in submit mode by > the `rc.sendmail' startup script. The relevant rc.conf options are: > > : sendmail_enable="NO" > : sendmail_submit_enable="YES" > : sendmail_submit_flags="-L smtpd -bd -q30m > : -ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=localhost" > > - Giorgos Can you exlpain exactly what submit mode is for? Is it something you want running on a production mail server? Thanks. Sendmail's submit mode is described in detail in the ``Sendmail Installation and Operation Guide''. It would be vain and probably worthless to try to duplicate all the information present in there in a mail message. For details of the what, how, why, when and anything else related to the submit mode you should refer to this guide[1], the FreeBSD Handbook, and Sendmail's own web site[2]. Perhaps a small description of submit mode would be enough to help you understand what it is. Quoting section 1.3.3 of the guide referenced above: 1.3.3. /etc/mail/submit.cf This is the configuration file for sendmail when it is used for initial mail submission, in which case it is also called ``Mail Submission Program'' (MSP) in contrast to ``Mail Transfer Agent'' (MTA). Starting with version 8.12, sendmail uses one of two different configuration files based on its operation mode (or the new -A option). For initial mail submission, i.e., if one of the options -bm (default), -bs, or -t is specified, submit.cf is used (if available), for other operations sendmail.cf is used. Details can be found in sendmail/SECURITY. submit.cf is shipped with sendmail (in cf/cf/) and is installed by default. If changes to the configuration need to be made, start with cf/cf/submit.mc and follow the instruction in cf/README. References ========== [1] ``Sendmail(TM) Installation and Operation Guide''. http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc8.12/op.html [2] Sendmail's homepage http://www.Sendmail.org/ [3] Sendmail's Message Submission Program (MSP) http://www.sendmail.org/m4/msp.html [4] Description of FEATURE(`msp') http://www.sendmail.org/m4/features.html#msp [5] FreeBSD Handbook Chapter on Electronic Mail http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html