From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 25 10:54:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E3C114D96 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 10:54:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA27667; Tue, 25 May 1999 10:54:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 10:54:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Thomas Widlundh Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: stand alone machine to internet via ISP In-Reply-To: <99052309511701.01474@tw.oden.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 23 May 1999, Thomas Widlundh wrote: > Den Sun, 23 May 1999 skrev Doug White: > > On Thu, 20 May 1999, pirat sriyotha wrote: > > > Turn every service off that you won't be using. If you won't be receiving > > mail directly to the box, you can turn sendmail completely off. You can > > still send mail, just not receive it directly on your box. You're using > > POP anyway, I'm guessing. > > Well, it seems that my knowledge in this matter was a little poor. > I had no idea of this about sendmail. I thought you must have sendmail. You have to have the binary installed, but it doesn't have to run as a daemon and accept connections from outside. Sendmail is smart and will call mail.local directly to deliver local mail. > Now coming to think of it after your mail, I do realize that I don't use > sendmail in my mailing works. As you say, I use POP (and SMTP). > OK. You are never too old to learn. > I want to Thank You and Others who have been giving me help in this matter. No problem. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message