From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 19:05:16 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B092216A400 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:05:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 770AF13C448 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:05:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay7.apple.com (relay7.apple.com [17.128.113.37]) by mail-out4.apple.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2FJ5FPi028283; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:05:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay7.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay7.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id A5F2330084; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:05:15 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807125-a247bbb0000007df-d8-45f998ebbb2f Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay7.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 9A3B530081; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:05:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <45F94706.9090201@freemail.hu> References: <45F86213.10604@designaproduct.biz> <6.0.0.22.2.20070314160910.024dc2f8@mail.computinginnovations.com> <45F867D4.4060405@freemail.hu> <20070314174657.4741d926@localhost> <45F94706.9090201@freemail.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Chuck Swiger Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:05:14 -0700 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nagy_L=E1szl=F3_Zsolt?= X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail not working? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:05:16 -0000 On Mar 15, 2007, at 6:15 AM, Nagy L=E1szl=F3 Zsolt wrote: > I know it is not the newest, but should work. I rebooted the =20 > machine, but it did not help. By the way, I do NOT want postfix to =20 > listen on TCP/25. I have to use an ssh tunnel. But I would like to =20 > be able to deliver e-mail messages locally. > > Here is what I did for now: > > - deinstalled postfix > - changed mailer.conf back to the original version > - disabled postfix and re-enabled sendmail in rc.conf > - started sendmail with "/etc/rc.d/sendmail start" > > And it works! But why couldn't I do this with postfix? Sendmail combines the functionality of something which listens on =20 port 25 (aka a MTA), with something which performs local delivery =20 (aka a MDA, Mail Delivery Agent), although sendmail can also be =20 configured to use procmail, the OS/vendor-specific MDA "mail.local" =20 or similar, etc. However, if sendmail is not configured to use an =20 external MDA, it will perform local delivery without needing to route =20= the mail via the MTA first. Postfix is designed to keep a firm separation of MTA and MDA =20 functionality for security reasons and always wants to receive =20 incoming mail via the MTA...it will not short-circuit to doing local =20 delivery the way sendmail can. --=20 -Chuck