From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 2 8:38:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3A4E37B401 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 08:38:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.21.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4142943EE5 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 08:38:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nkinkade@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net) Received: from nkinkade by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18Itaq-0000iI-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 08:38:48 -0800 Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 08:38:48 -0800 From: Nathan Kinkade To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail / Fetchmail / Procmail / Mozilla Message-ID: <20021202163848.GE467@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> Reply-To: nkinkade@dsl-only.net Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3DEA0CB4.3030204@p6m7g8.com> <20021201184537.GD86826@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20021201200318.GA467@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> <20021202083540.GE86826@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021202083540.GE86826@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:35:40AM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # nkinkade@dsl-only.net / 2002-12-01 12:03:18 -0800: > > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:45:37PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > > > > > If I want to use fetchmail to snag email from say 4 different pop acounts > > > > and then filter it with procmail and use mozilla to read it (which I've > > > > read is trivial to do), what parts of sendmail (or any mta) must I > > > > have running minimally on localhost. > > > > > > none. you don't need sendmail to accept mail through fetchmail (just > > > have it store messages directly in your mailbox instead of pulling > > > them through sendmail; you get an added bonus of preventing mail > > > loops in case you manage to misconfigure either part), and you don't > > > need sendmail to send mail from mozilla, as it has its own > > > implementation of a smtp client, just like any other clickoid mail > > > client (IOW, it bypasses the standard, which is passing the message > > > to sendmail on the command line.) > > > > > > note however, that disabling sendmail completely will cripple your > > > system in that you will no longer receive the valuable output from > > > periodic(8) scripts, and possibly in other areas. > > > > > > Why would disabling sendmail cripple all of the periodic scripts? Other > > than those scripts that relate specifically to an MTA, which others > > would be affected? > > where in the text you quoted did I say that disabling sendmail would > cripple periodic(8) scripts? I said it would cripple the system in > that root would no longer receive the output of the periodic > scripts. > > > Also, if you have another MTA just edit /etc/mail/mailer.conf to point > > to your new MTA, as the various invocations of sendmail are just > > wrappers that use the mailer.conf file to determine exactly what they > > should be executing. I recently left sendmail in favour of Exim. A > > few tweaks to mailer.conf and one or two minor changes to a few of the > > periodic scripts and everything is in order. > > I was speaking about sendmail, not Sendmail. This part of the > message was specifically about having system with no *s*endmail. The > latter half was about disabling {S,s}endmail. I run Postfix on all > my machines, so I guess I'm quite aware *S*endmail is not exactly > required. OK. I apologize if I mis-interpreted your post. It wasn't clear to me that your were making a distinction between "Sendmail" and "sendmail", as you don't point out such a distinction. Still, how does one totally disable "sendmail" without deleting the wrapper named `sendmail`? My rc.conf file has 'sendmail_enable="NONE"', yet I still receive the output from the periodic scripts via Exim. I am not trying to question your mastery of FreeBSD. I am simply trying to clarify this matter so that if I am in error I may correct myself. Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message