From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 12 8:42:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com (dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com [64.193.218.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E797137B491 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 08:42:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 6005 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Feb 2001 16:39:58 -0000 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:39:58 -0600 From: Lucas Bergman To: Ragnar Beer Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail transfer agent needed? Message-ID: <20010212103957.A15502@billygoat.slb.to> Reply-To: lucas@slb.to References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rbeer@uni-goettingen.de on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:12:04PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Another question that came up at my first look at FreeBSD is about > an MTA. Do I need a running sendmail or whatever if all I want to > receive are the local emails that e.g. cron sends? You need the sendmail binary (or a reasonable clone, such as the ones that come with qmail or Postfix) to be executable in /usr/sbin/sendmail. However, you do not need sendmail running as a daemon; `crond' and the /etc/periodic scripts execute the sendmail binary directly. Feel free (in fact, encouraged) to put ``sendmail_enable=NO'' in /etc/rc.conf, as this only disables the daemon. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message