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Subject: Re: Configuring FreeBSD 6.2 to use sendmail for sending only
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L Goodwin wrote:
>>> What specific steps (including network-specific)
>> need to be performed to get sendmail working for
>> outgoing mail only in a secure manner?

I suggest ssmtp in the ports:  ports/mail/ssmtp

Or it's web site:
http://packages.debian.org/testing/mail/ssmtp.html

"A secure, effective and simple way of getting mail off a system to your 
mail hub. It contains no suid-binaries or other dangerous things - no 
mail spool to poke around in, and no daemons running in the background. 
Mail is simply forwarded to the configured mailhost. Extremely easy 
configuration."

Only needs 4 or 5 lines in a config file.  Read up on the "make replace" 
process to install it in place of sendmail.

   -RW