From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 14 18:04:58 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 9B30316A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:04:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from toxic.magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61D8743D3F for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:04:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@magnesium.net) Received: by toxic.magnesium.net (Postfix, from userid 1070) id 37E62DA839; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:04:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:04:58 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Jan Grant Message-ID: <20040714180458.GC54340@toxic.magnesium.net> References: <20040713235330.GA16511@toxic.magnesium.net> <20040714031953.GA3825@gothmog.gr> <200407132233.51809.ecrist@secure-computing.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. (Alternate) Public service Unix since 1986. cc: Eric Crist cc: Giorgos Keramidas cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Gary Kline 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 18:04:58 -0000 On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:14:27AM +0100, Jan Grant wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Eric Crist wrote: > > > 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? > > Eric, the first three paragraphs of section 1 of RFC 2476 explain this. > > In a nutshell: an MTA is not supposed to "munge" email (apart from > adding Received: headers and the like); however, many local clients > submit via SMTP and the mail server needs to do lots more work: > rewriting email addresses, and so on. The split of sendmail's operation > into MTA (Transmission) and MSA (Submission) is to support this. > This is where I run aground into the mud of confusion. I always thought tat sendmail was just an MTA. Hang the rest. But then, sendmail is getting to reuire a Ph D to use.... gary PS: everything incomng is still being queued.... -- Gary Kline Seattle BSD Users' Group (seabug) | kline@magnesium.net Thought Unlimited Org's Alternate Email Site http://www.magnesium.net/~kline To live is not a necessity; but to live honorably...is a necessity. -Kant