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Date:      Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:00:13 +0100 (BST)
From:      Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk>
To:        Ekrem <ekrem@ozemail.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Sendmail:  Do I need it running?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.58.0309281659380.19353@bitch.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <1064761546.65061.4.camel@beynam.ecko.net.au>
References:  <1064761546.65061.4.camel@beynam.ecko.net.au>

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On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Ekrem wrote:

> Hi people,
>
> I'm using FreeBSD on my standalone desktop PC. I use dialup for the
> internet and use Evolution as the email client, but the following 2
> processes always running;
>
> sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail)
> sendmail: Queue runner@00:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail)
>
> Do they need to be running for things like daily/weekly cron jobs that
> send emails to root, or for any other purpose?

No if you aren't using SMTP to receive email from outside your can disable
these by putting sendmail_enable="no" in /etc/rc.conf then just kill of
the processes

Rus
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