Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:40:22 -0500 From: "Eric L. Howard" <elh@outreachnetworks.com> To: "'stable@freebsd.org'" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sendmail 8.12.2 MFC'ed Message-ID: <20020326164022.G8122@outreachnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <15520.58661.435800.146259@horsey.gshapiro.net>; from gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 01:16:21PM -0800 References: <B1B0DD19298CD41195A600508BF9067A04446A1E@emss04m08.ems.lmco.com> <20020326155349.F8122@outreachnetworks.com> <15520.58661.435800.146259@horsey.gshapiro.net>
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At a certain time, now past, Gregory Neil Shapiro spake thusly:
> >> One question about this: now that we have 4 different ways to run sendmail,
> >> which do I run simply to get the output from periodic mailed correctly?
> >> That's all I use sendmail for and I'd like to keep its use to a minimum.
> >> Thanks.
> >>
>
> elh> You don't need to run sendmail as a daemon for this...just add an
> elh> alias for root in /etc/aliases for where you want root's mail to end
> elh> up...run newaliases and away you go.
>
> With 8.12, you do need a daemon to accept the mail from the "command line"
> submission. See /etc/mail/README for an explanation.
Maybe I shoud have inserted a disclaimer...
*I have not run sendmail for production SMTP services for 2 years...pay no
attention to me!*
I don't know...that seems a little wrong to me...and to explore here will
probably lead us all way off-topic. Thanx for the correction.
~elh
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Eric L. Howard e l h @ o u t r e a c h n e t w o r k s . c o m
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