From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 28 02:20:42 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4050106568F for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:20:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sahil@tandon.net) Received: from aegis.hamla.org (aegis.hamla.org [206.251.255.39]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 949318FC38 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:20:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sahil@tandon.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aegis.hamla.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D4655C74 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:21:07 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=tandon.net; h= x-virus-scanned:in-reply-to:content-disposition:content-type :mime-version:references:reply-to:message-id:subject:from:date: received; s=aegis; t=1222568467; bh=3f7jW0FQve9Q4qNytvWOltoIlEul NERvoLEyyYJFyxE=; b=Qt2rSMW0BLz/0m3xvFdmm2jDXyuKqAdr2+1fcdYzkNbp RNl0XTvC+bYDDlgmSDgmVvBsd+3+jRLQmJIFNh3Mk8h7tseW/rLnd1sZ7SvuDKMc 1iGIyacDVnRw3eJzj5PV2dwAw+AF1j0WhGPPuuk+C21XS78BrRF5dpJRuYN6eZU= Received: from aegis.hamla.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (aegis.hamla.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10027) with LMTP id Nj6Phn8gvGnU for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:21:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:20:40 -0400 From: Sahil Tandon To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080928022040.GC36499@shepherd> References: <340a29540809271827r57503ca7o9f8916a7d5fade8@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <340a29540809271827r57503ca7o9f8916a7d5fade8@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.94, clamav-milter version 0.94 on aegis.hamla.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: The consequences of turning off sendmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:20:42 -0000 Andrew Falanga wrote: > This question comes from complete ignorance about this stuff (what > happens when turning off sendmail), but if I turn off sendmail will > system messages still get delivered? Also, I'm going to be using this > box as a web server and I'm using Joomla!. If I turn this off, will I > still get the notifications that new users have signed on, etc.? I'd > like to turn it off because the box doesn't sit inside of a fully > qualified domain (it sits inside a 192.168.x/24 network), but will > host web services for www.whitneybaptist.org. Obviously, requests > sent to 72.24.34.252 on port 80 are forwarded to this box (actually, > internally it's 192.168.2.23). Also, (for those who have endured > helping me work through the issues with our mail server) until I get > things worked out with DNS this new server will not be hosting e-mail > for this domain (whitneybaptist.org), that's temporarily being done at > google mail. > > So, basically, what sort of trouble am I going to get into by turning > off sendmail? Also, I think I'm going to implement DNS, an internal > thing, to make this box happy and then point the resolver to use the > Internet DNS servers for everything else. You can turn off the Sendmail daemon so that it does not actually listen for incoming connections or act as an MTA in the conventional sense. But local utilities like cron can still invoke the /usr/sbin/sendmail command to send you notifications. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-December/107610.html -- Sahil Tandon