From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 20 12:31:48 2003 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 C616016A4CF for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:31:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from catseye.mine.nu (d207-81-17-215.bchsia.telus.net [207.81.17.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4B4D43D49 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:31:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from catseye@catseye.mine.nu) Received: (qmail 16166 invoked by uid 1001); 20 Dec 2003 20:31:21 -0000 Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:31:21 -0800 From: Chris Pressey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20031220123121.525ad1db.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <00c701c3c736$0f38d4d0$0fce75d8@cybertime.net> References: <20031220102637.GB6942@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <00c701c3c736$0f38d4d0$0fce75d8@cybertime.net> Organization: Cat's Eye Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: zhangweiwu@realss.com Subject: Re: why do I need sendmail 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: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 20:31:48 -0000 On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:15:49 -0800 "Cybertime Hostmaster" wrote: > One thing to note in Matthew's reply: > > > that. However, automatic e-mails from your system -- usually from > > the periodic(8) scripts -- do require sendmail(8) or equivalent. > > Two words at the end, "or equivalent." > > You can run Courier, Exim, Mini Sendmail, Nullmailer, Postfix, Qmail, > ZMailer, so on and so forth. > > All have advantages and disadvantages. Personally, I use Postfix, but > that is because for my needs it is better. > > If you have trouble reducing sendmail down to your needs, look at the > documentation on the others. One of them might suit you better. > > Your mileage may vary, so on and so forth. FWIW, you can also cause periodic(8) to log to a file instead of sending mail, by adding lines like the following to /etc/periodic.conf: daily_output="/var/log/dialy.log" weekly_output="/var/log/weekly.log" monthly_output="/var/log/monthly.log" Not sure if this eliminates the need for a local mailer, but it's sure to be the first step down that road. I can't think of anything else that sends automated e-mails, offhand, but whatever does can probably be configured to write its output to a file instead, in a similar way. -Chris