Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 20:32:56 +0100 From: Ragnar Beer <rbeer@uni-goettingen.de> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cron and sendmail Message-ID: <p04330107b6adea21226d@[192.168.0.98]> In-Reply-To: <200102121845.NAA20130@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <p04330104b6addd622dfe@[192.168.0.98]> <200102121845.NAA20130@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Does that mean that it's better not to use sendmail even if it's not running in daemon mode? What else should I use for simplicity and security? Ragnar ><<On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:41:00 +0100, Ragnar Beer ><rbeer@uni-goettingen.de> said: > >> I just learned (better late than never ;) that even if I have >> disabled sendmail as a daemon with "sendmail_enable=NO" in >> /etc/rc.conf the program still gets executed periodically by crond >> and the /etc/periodic scripts. > >If you are using some other MTA, you should configure `mailwrapper' to >redirect requests to that MTA rather than executing Sendmail(tm). On >modern FreeBSD systems, /usr/sbin/sendmail is actually the >`mailwrapper' program, which redirects requests to your MTA of choice. > >If you are not running any sort of MTA on the machine, then you should >generate and install a sendmail.cf file which uses the `nullclient' >configuration to send all of its outgoing mail to an appropriate mail >server. You should also periodically run a `sendmail -q' in order to >deliver any mail which was queued due to the relay host being >unreachable. Whether you use `cron' or `sendmail -qINTERVAL' to do >this is a matter of religion. > >-GAWollman > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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