From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 28 16:50:18 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 EBDAE16A4BF for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 16:50:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 867134404D for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 16:50:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sandshrimp@comcast.net) Received: from comcast.net (unknown[12.242.162.139]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with SMTP id <2003092823501201100npdo0e> (Authid: sandshrimp); Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:50:12 +0000 Message-ID: <3F7773B3.7080508@comcast.net> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 16:50:11 -0700 From: Ryan Merrick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ekrem References: <1064761546.65061.4.camel@beynam.ecko.net.au> <1064791633.65061.14.camel@beynam.ecko.net.au> In-Reply-To: <1064791633.65061.14.camel@beynam.ecko.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Sendmail: Do I need it running? 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: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:50:19 -0000 Ekrem wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 02:00, Rus Foster wrote: > >>On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Ekrem wrote: >> >> >>>Hi people, >>> >>>I'm using FreeBSD on my standalone desktop PC. I use dialup for the >>>internet and use Evolution as the email client, but the following 2 >>>processes always running; >>> >>>sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail) >>>sendmail: Queue runner@00:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail) >>> >>>Do they need to be running for things like daily/weekly cron jobs that >>>send emails to root, or for any other purpose? >> >>No if you aren't using SMTP to receive email from outside your can disable >>these by putting sendmail_enable="no" in /etc/rc.conf then just kill of >>the processes >> >>Rus > > > Thanks for your reply. > > Actually, I am retrieving my emails from my ISP's SMTP server but I know > I don't need to run sendmail to retrieve them. I did kill those 2 > processes. I'm just too sure if it will have some impact on email > notifications. > > Interestingly, I do have sendmail_enable="NO" in my /etc/rc.conf file, > yet sendmail continues to automatically start whenever I reboot. > > I might have to go learn more about auto-start processes. > To completely disable sendmail in #/etc/rc.conf use sendmail_enable="none" Sendmail is used as the default mailer for cron. This only works if an email address is mapped to root in #/etc/aliases. -Ryan