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Date:      Mon, 4 Feb 2008 21:22:06 +0000
From:      RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sendmail should not bind to loopback only
Message-ID:  <20080204212206.33841a4a@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:12:00 +0100
"Wouter Oosterveld" <wouter@fizzyflux.nl> wrote:

> I can't find this in the FreeBSD handbook (not in
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sendmail.html
> anyway). Would that be a documentation bug? If not, which piece of
> documentation should I have read?

For anything to do with base system daemons it's often useful to
look in /etc/defaults/rc.conf.

Sendmail is little unusual in that although it's nominally "off" by
default, there has to be some limited form of mail delivery for daily
security reports etc. 



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