From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 8 11:05:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA04107 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Jun 1997 11:05:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mpeks.tomsk.su (mpeks.tomsk.su [193.124.182.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA04089 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 1997 11:05:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mpeks.tomsk.su (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id CAA17881; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 02:04:04 +0800 Received: (from vas@localhost) by vas.tomsk.su (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA00213; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 01:29:08 +0800 (TSD) From: "Victor A. Sudakov" Message-Id: <199706081729.BAA00213@vas.tomsk.su> Subject: Re: sendmail tries to dial out To: robert@chalmers.com.au Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 01:29:08 +0800 (TSD) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3399E413.1128@chalmers.com.au> from "Robert" at "Jun 8, 97 08:43:31 am" Organization: Tomsk Region Education Department X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Robert wrote: > > I have set up dial on demand ppp and now I have the following problem: every > > time I send a message, sendmail immediately causes ppp to dial out. This is > > not desirable as I send and receive my mail via uucp only. This is strange > > too, because sendmail was told not to use dns, smtp, canonification etc. Why > > does it dial out? > > Hi Victor, this problem is in the sendmail startup string. IN the docs > it says to change your /etc/sysconfig file to have > > senmailflags='-bd' I have just tried this. It did not help - sendmail continues to dial out every time I send a message. > > to check the queue, and to send mail, type > > /usr/sbin/sendmail -q -- Victor Sudakov http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm