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From: Dru <dlavigne6@cogeco.ca>
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To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
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Subject: Re: sendmail and rc.conf
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On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:

>
> On Saturday 03 August 2002 01:29 pm, Dru wrote:
> | I've been unable to find a good explanation (and hope a guru will be kind
> | enough to provide one) regarding the best rc.conf option to choose if a
> | user just wants to be able to send mail.
> |
> | If I choose sendmail_enable="NONE", I can send email and sockstat shows
> | port 25 open on the localhost. If I choose sendmail_enable="NO", port 25
> | no longer shows up but I appear to lose the ability to send mail. Is
> | "NONE" as good as it gets and does it leave port 25 all the way open or
> | just to the localhost?
> |
> | Any comments, explanations, pointers to URLs? I don't think I'm the only
> | person out there confused about this.
>
>
> This depends entirely on how you are trying to send mail.
>
> If you use an SMTP/POP-enabled mail program, then you can send mail directly
> to your ISP using those protocols regardless of the local MTA.
>
> But if the mail program is set up to expect a local sendmail to send and/or to
> find mail in /var/spool/mail, then you'd need to have sendmail doing
> something to make that work.
>
> With sendmail set to NONE, I don't see how you could send mail other than by
> using SMTP, but if you are using SMTP, then setting sendmail to NO should not
> disable that.
>
> So perhaps you can provide some more details on your setup?
>
> I will say that getting basic mail setup working is *way* harder than it ought
> to be.  Some basic "pre-canned setups" for common cases where you could just
> plug in your ISP name would be a really helpful thing.


Hrrmmmm. So I guess the answer is "it depends upon your MUA". Which would
be very confusing to a newbie, especially since it is hard enough wading
through the mail section of the ports without having to also decipher out
of the description whether or not a particular port is SMTP enabled.

Dru


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