From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 28 1:50:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4564F37B41E; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 01:50:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 01:50:17 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 01:50:17 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Question re: Sendmail changes Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: Gregory Neil Shapiro In-reply-to: <15563.45699.842494.993076@horsey.gshapiro.net> References: <20020427204915815.AAA795@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Message-ID: <20020428085017797.AAA795@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28 Apr 2002, at 1:27, Gregory Neil Shapiro boldly uttered: > pjklist> A queue runner process owned by "smmsp". > pjklist> A traditional sendmail process owned by root, "accepting > pjklist> connections". > > pjklist> I have sendmail_enable="NO" in my rc.conf. I thought this would have > pjklist> left just the queue runner process going, no? If I telnet to > pjklist> localhost port 25, I still see the usual banner. > > pjklist> Do I really have to set sendmail_enable to "NONE" so it won't answer > pjklist> on port 25 at all? > > Read /etc/mail/README (or src/etc/mail/README if you haven't run > mergemaster) to find out more about this new process. So the answer to the question is, it was misleading to test for a "public" sendmail process answering on port 25 using "localhost" because the way it's done now when sendmail_enable="NO" is that the incoming process is only bound to localhost. Sure enough, if I did the same test using the actual IP or host address, there was nothing answering on port 25. Thanks for the rtfm reminder Gregory. -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message