Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2011 12:01:03 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Cutting sendmail out of the loop Message-ID: <201109041801.MAA04495@lariat.net>
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I'm creating some small FreeBSD servers that shouldn't be able to send mail to, or receive mail from, the outside world. I was originally just going to set sendmail_enable="NONE" in /etc/rc.conf and turn off the mailing of output from various utilities (e.g. cron), but alas there seem to be a few programs I may need to run that insist upon sending mail. So, I'd like to see if I can set up local delivery of mail without invoking the memory- and cpu-hungry program that is sendmail. I'm therefore wondering what would happen if I just put /usr/libexec.mail.local in as "sendmail" and "send-mail" in mailer.conf and leaving out the rest of the entries. Does anyone on the list have experience with doing this or something similar? Sendmail has a lot of command line options that mail.local does not, but they seem to be rarely invoked by programs that do things such as mail output to a local user. --Brett Glass
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