Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:23:29 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: staring sendonly sendmail Message-ID: <20031118122329.GA91993@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <20031118113622.GA389@dds.nl> References: <20031117174951.A26427@asu.edu> <20031118022926.GA3507@dds.nl> <20031118085949.GA90188@ei.bzerk.org> <20031118113622.GA389@dds.nl>
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:36:22PM +0100, Alex de Kruijff typed: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:59:49AM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:29:27AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff typed: > > > 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 be send > > > from the local host. By setting the sendmail_enable to no you have > > > disabled this. > > > > Correction, this IS the default: > > > > ruben@ei:/home/ruben> grep sendmail_enable /etc/defaults/rc.conf > > sendmail_enable="NO" # Run the sendmail inbound daemon (YES/NO). > > > > Setting sendmail_enable to "NONE" is what will disable sending mail from > > the local host. The OP has allready configured sendmail the way he wants. > > I've seemed to made an error. Setting sendmail_enable="NO" results in > disableling incomming sendmail service. But you incorrect about the > default. It seems that you have modified /etc/defaults/rc.conf. Mine > (4.9) says YES. And according to this: > http://people.freebsd.org/~jkb/howto.html/ > "By default FreeBSD ships with sendmail enabled." ACK. I checked my -current box, where the default is "NO". Sorry for the confusion. Ruben > -- > Alex > > Articles based on solutions that I use: > http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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