Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 09:49:53 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: ppp+alias -auto &spurious dialups. Message-ID: <199612080849.JAA29189@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199612080005.SAA14181@bonkers.taronga.com> from Peter da Silva at "Dec 7, 96 06:05:48 pm"
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As Peter da Silva wrote: > >Sheesh. sendmail is our default MTA. It's not an ISP-only thing, > >even local mail is being passed to sendmail: > > Yeh, but that'll work without the "sendmail -bd". All that does is provide > SMTP service. If you're getting your mail via POP3 or something you don't > need a sendmail daemon running. Anyway, if the sendmail isn't configured correctly, it will still dialout to the Internet, even for local delivery only. And _that_'s been the question here. (If you are less concerned about this, but are e.g. about security, i fully agree with you.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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