From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 8 00:53:30 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id AAA02470 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 00:53:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id AAA02446 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 00:53:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA01532 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 09:53:24 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA02464 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 09:53:23 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id JAA29189 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 09:49:53 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612080849.JAA29189@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: ppp+alias -auto &spurious dialups. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 09:49:53 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199612080005.SAA14181@bonkers.taronga.com> from Peter da Silva at "Dec 7, 96 06:05:48 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)