From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 1 10:45:46 2002 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 BE21B37B401 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 10:45:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6EF543E4A for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 10:45:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from lilith.bellavista.cz ([10.1.0.1]) by bellavista.cz (8.9.3/8.9.8) with ESMTP id TAA14006; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 19:45:39 +0100 Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by lilith.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CD4628; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 20:43:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 330732FDAD7; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 19:45:37 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 19:45:37 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: "Philip M. Gollucci" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail / Fetchmail / Procmail / Mozilla Message-ID: <20021201184537.GD86826@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: "Philip M. Gollucci" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3DEA0CB4.3030204@p6m7g8.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DEA0CB4.3030204@p6m7g8.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG # philip@p6m7g8.com / 2002-12-01 13:20:52 +0000: > Please cc me on the response. Thanks. ok. > This is for a FreeBSD 5.0-DP2 irrelevant. > If I want to use fetchmail to snag email from say 4 different pop acounts > and then filter it with procmail and use mozilla to read it (which I've > read is trivial to do), what parts of sendmail (or any mta) must I > have running minimally on localhost. none. you don't need sendmail to accept mail through fetchmail (just have it store messages directly in your mailbox instead of pulling them through sendmail; you get an added bonus of preventing mail loops in case you manage to misconfigure either part), and you don't need sendmail to send mail from mozilla, as it has its own implementation of a smtp client, just like any other clickoid mail client (IOW, it bypasses the standard, which is passing the message to sendmail on the command line.) note however, that disabling sendmail completely will cripple your system in that you will no longer receive the valuable output from periodic(8) scripts, and possibly in other areas. > You can assume that this is for my person workstation and I do have root. > > While were on the sendmail thing, what exactly was the final decision on > how to turn it off completely in FreeBSD4.7-RELEASE and -CURRENT ? > (have the recent changes been MFC'ed yet) > > I've seen different answers across news groups, this list, and the > src/UPDATING file. looks like there are different ways to achieve that. /usr/src/UPDATING is the authoritative source however. > a) sendmail_enable = "NO" (or anything that isn't NONE or YES) sendmail doesn't accept mail from outside (command line submission only). > b) senmail_enable = "NONE" completely disables sendmail. > c) mta_start_script="/nonexistent" (or empty quotes) completely disables sendmail, with the possibility of you getting complaints during start. /usr/src/UPDATING says you should use "" for the value. > d) sendmail_enable="NO" > sendmail_submit_enable="NO" > sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" > sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" verbose way of saying sendmail_enable="NONE". the above is my understaning of the stuff in question, and I might be wrong in some details. if in doubt, consult the /etc/rc* scripts. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message