From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 3 16:23:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smarthost-1.mail.telinco.net (smarthost-1.mail.telinco.net [212.1.128.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53EBD37B4EC for ; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 16:23:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.cluster1.telinco.net ([212.1.128.150]) by smarthost-1.mail.telinco.net with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #7) id 14PCxh-000KrI-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2001 00:23:25 +0000 Received: from basilisk.locus (ppp-1-131.cvx5.telinco.net [212.1.152.131]) by smtp1.cluster1.telinco.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA07888 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 00:23:24 GMT Received: (from harry@localhost) by basilisk.locus (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f140N5K99517; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 00:23:05 GMT (envelope-from harry@basilisk.locus) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: sendmail dials out for local delivery X-Op.135: Muss es sein ? Es muss sein Organization: GAUDEAMUS From: Harry Newton Date: 04 Feb 2001 00:22:40 +0000 Message-ID: <86n1c370vj.fsf@basilisk.locus> Lines: 42 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why does local mail delivery cause ppp to dial out ? I use ppp -auto ispname and if I do echo "hi" | mail harry then this causes the machine to dial out to my isp. I start sendmail with sendmail -bd -q30m This has only started recently ! I used to be able to send mail locally quite easily I'm sure. Please help: this is really annoying me ! Here's sendmail.mc VERSIONID(`Sanctified Sendmail 8 I 2000 HN')dnl OSTYPE(bsd4.4)dnl dnl FEATURE(nouucp,`nospecial')dnl FEATURE(`nocanonify')dnl FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl FEATURE(`genericstable', `hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable')dnl GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/genericsdomain')dnl dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp:smtp:telinco.co.uk')dnl MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`LOCAL', `+S')dnl dnl MAILER(`local')dnl MAILER(`smtp')dnl dnl dnl O PrivacyOptions=authwarnings dnl O PrivacyOptions=noexpn dnl O PrivacyOptions=novrfy -- Harry Newton harry_newton `at' telinco.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message