Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:11:03 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The consequences of turning off sendmail Message-ID: <20080928131103.5eaaf06e@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20080928022040.GC36499@shepherd> References: <340a29540809271827r57503ca7o9f8916a7d5fade8@mail.gmail.com> <20080928022040.GC36499@shepherd>
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On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:20:40 -0400 Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net> wrote: > Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> wrote: > > You can turn off the Sendmail daemon so that it does not actually > listen for incoming connections or act as an MTA in the conventional > sense. But local utilities like cron can still invoke > the /usr/sbin/sendmail command to send you notifications. > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-December/107610.html > The default for sendmail is: sendmail_enable="NO sendmail_submit_enable="YES" which has the sendmail daemon listening only on localhost. It's fully functional in all respects except that it can't be accessed from outside. You can use localhost:25 as an outgoing mail server if you wish. Turning-off the localhost daemon altogether and having /usr/sbin/sendmail deliver local mail directly is possible, but it's deprecated on security grounds as it needs to run setuid.
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