From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 11 3: 1:41 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 ADFB737B400 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 03:01:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailf.telia.com (mailf.telia.com [194.22.194.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED47743E81 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 03:01:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailf.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7BA0w0k010666 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:00:58 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-Recipient: Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h62n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.62]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA20913 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:00:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 40240 invoked by uid 1001); 11 Aug 2002 10:00:48 -0000 Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:00:48 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: BSD Freak Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How to revert back to older sendmail functionality Message-ID: <20020811100047.GA39233@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: BSD Freak , FreeBSD Questions References: <102d1cb102c1ae.102c1ae102d1cb@mbox.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <102d1cb102c1ae.102c1ae102d1cb@mbox.com.au> 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 On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 07:16:13PM +1000, BSD Freak wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know how I can revert to pre 4.6 sendmail/FreeBSD > functionality? When sendmail_enable="NO" in rc.conf meant NO > SENDMAIL! I know I can do sendmail_enable="NONE" but that stops any > mail from being sent out from the localhost, and I'd rather not have > anything listening even on the loopback interface. > > More serious than this though is jail/sendmail functionality. With > sendmail_enable="NO" in a jail, sendmail binds to the real aliased > address and is accessible from other hosts (ie it binds to a REAL > address rather than the loopback interface! If I do put in > sendmail_enable="NONE" then I don't get the /etc/periodic reports > emailed to me. > > I want back pre-4.6 where there would be no daemon listening to accept > connections but mail could still be sent from the localhost. > > Any gurus out there know how I get it back? Read /etc/mail/README which describes two possible ways of accomplishing this. (The second of them is the way it was done in pre-4.6) Reading the rc.sendmail(8) manpage might also be informative. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message