Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:26:05 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail && dhcp Message-ID: <44k2z4ci8y.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <20150226203154.GA2853@c720-r276659> (Matthias Apitz's message of "Thu, 26 Feb 2015 21:31:54 %2B0100") References: <20150226144245.GA1346@c720-r276659> <44bnkgsmcl.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <20150226194012.GA2695@c720-r276659> <4461aoe96j.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <20150226203154.GA2853@c720-r276659>
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Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> writes: > El d=EDa Thursday, February 26, 2015 a las 02:59:00PM -0500, Lowell Gilbe= rt escribi=F3: > >> Are you sure you *need* sendmail running by default? Most laptops don't.= =20 > > Most laptops run Windows and of course I could read my mail like any Um, yes. Assume I meant "Most Unix laptops don't." > poor Windows user with a browser :-) But I don't. I fetch my mails from my > ISP with fetchmail and pipe them through sendmail and procmail (for > filtering); and I send upstream with SMPT && SSL to my ISP using > sendmail. More, if you have to pay the Internet link in a hotel, for > example in Havana time based ($4.50 per hour), it is so nice to connect a > few seconds(!) to fetch all your mails, shutdown the link, read and > answer the mails offline, queue answers with sendmail, and re-open the li= nk for a > few seconds to send the mails out. Isn't this handy? You don't need a sendmail daemon for that. Tell fetchmail to invoke sendmail itself instead of delivering to a local TCP port. I don't remember the syntax exactly, but I'm pretty sure that it's described in fetchmail's man page. Seriously; very few laptops need to be running any kind of MTA full-time.
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