Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:16:26 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Carol Deihl <carol@tinker.com> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, "Scott I. Remick" <scott@computeralt.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewall questions Message-ID: <199911050716.XAA71639@apollo.backplane.com> References: <4.2.2.19991104094637.00cdd9f0@mail.computeralt.com> <3821B920.F1A47745@softweyr.com> <38227105.43BA2183@tinker.com>
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:> 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
You don't have to run sendmail from cron, you can run it as a
daemon *without* having it listen on port 25. It is simply:
sendmail -q30m (note that there is no '-bd').
If you have the MaxDaemonChildren option set properly, running
it this way is much safer then running it from cron.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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