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Date:      Fri, 24 Dec 2004 20:54:23 -0800
From:      Tabor Kelly <tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net>
To:        Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sendmail running on localhost 25?
Message-ID:  <41CCF27F.4020902@taborandtashell.net>
In-Reply-To: <20041224161643.GA40553@ei.bzerk.org>
References:  <20041224065512.29367.qmail@rahul.net> <200412240326.16142.james@idea-anvil.net> <20041224161643.GA40553@ei.bzerk.org>

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Ruben de Groot wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 03:26:15AM -0700, James typed:

<snip>

> This will also disable those annoying daily, weekly and montly 
> messages recieved from cronjobs.
> 
> Who wants to read about your disks filling up, attempts to break into
> your server and other futilities anyway ;-)

A typical qmail install includes the following:

$ killall sendmail
$ mv /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail.old
$ chmod 0 /usr/sbin/sendmail.old
$ ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
$ chmod 0 /usr/libexec/mail.local

cron ends up calling /var/qmail/bin/sendmail.

-Tabor



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