From owner-freebsd-security Thu Nov 4 21:59:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from tinker.com (troll.tinker.com [204.214.7.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6030314DC7 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:59:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from carol@tinker.com) Received: by localhost (8.8.5/8.8.5) Received: by mail.tinker.com via smap (V2.0) id xma010350; Thu Nov 4 23:34:04 1999 Received: by localhost (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA23674; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:58:27 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <38227105.43BA2183@tinker.com> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 23:54:13 -0600 From: Carol Deihl Organization: Shrier and Deihl X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wes Peters Cc: "Scott I. Remick" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewall questions References: <4.2.2.19991104094637.00cdd9f0@mail.computeralt.com> <3821B920.F1A47745@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wes Peters wrote: > > "Scott I. Remick" wrote: > > > > 2) Is sendmail necessary on a firewall? > > If you want to be able to send mail into the firewall, yes. For outgoing > mail, sendmail is called directly. Outgoing mail that has to be queued up, > for whatever reason, won't be resent unless you have sendmail running as > a daemon. > Actually, you don't need to have sendmail running as a daemon to resend queued mail. Just put something like this in your crontab (this one tries to resend twice an hour): # deliver mail that gets queued 5,35 * * * * root /usr/sbin/sendmail -q Carol -- Carol Deihl - principal, Shrier and Deihl - mailto:carol@tinker.com Remote Unix Network Admin, Security, Internet Software Development Tinker Internet Services - Superior FreeBSD-based Web Hosting http://www.tinker.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message