From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 18:31:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 523E416A4CE for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:31:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp11.wxs.nl (smtp11.wxs.nl [195.121.6.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D94C43FBD for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:31:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akruijff@www.kruijff.org) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp11.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HOJ00F6A09C6G@smtp11.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 03:29:37 +0100 (MET) Received: from Alex.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAI2TREp004791; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 03:29:27 +0100 (CET envelope-from akruijff@Alex.lan) Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Alex.lan (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id hAI2TRld004790; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 03:29:27 +0100 (CET envelope-from akruijff) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 03:29:27 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <20031117174951.A26427@asu.edu> To: David Bear Message-id: <20031118022926.GA3507@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i References: <20031117174951.A26427@asu.edu> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: staring sendonly sendmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 02:31:40 -0000 On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:49:51PM -0700, David Bear wrote: > I do not want sendmail to receive message. > > I only want it to act as a local mta/mda and a sending agent. > > I have sendmail_enable="no" in rc.conf, but can quite seem to locate > what else I need to start it as mentioned above. I googled "freebsd > sendmail local delivery" but got way too many hits. Sendmail is setup so that it by default only allows mails to send from the local host. By setting the sendmail_enable to no you have disabled this. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/