From owner-freebsd-security Mon Nov 5 17:31:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from yez.hyperreal.org (dsl027-182-008.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.27.182.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2695637B417 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 17:31:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1298 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Nov 2001 01:31:53 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Nov 2001 01:31:53 -0000 Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 17:31:53 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Behlendorf X-X-Sender: To: Danny Cc: Subject: Re: Qmail Relay In-Reply-To: <003301c16658$1c36c070$020144c0@danny> Message-ID: <20011105172917.J388-100000@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is really not on-topic for this list, but to answer it anyways, tcpserver is like inetd in that it passes along network connections to particular processes (in this case, qmail-smtpd) and is what listens on port 25 for SMTP traffic, so it is a necessary part of using qmail as your MTA. If all you need to do is be able to send mail, you don't even really need an MTA, as most modern mail clients (all the GUI ones I know of, pine, mutt, etc) can SMTP connect to a remote mail server. Brian On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Danny wrote: > From reading all the FAQs and whatnot from DJB (who seems to be quite > the arrogant prick) it doesn't appear that there is any way of using a > q-mail server as a realy besides running his 'tcpserver'. Is this the > case or can I use qmail as a realy without relying on anything besisides > the 4.4 base system? > > > > 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