From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 12 0:13: 3 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from sivka.rdy.com (sivka.rdy.com [207.33.166.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 889B837B503; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:12:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dima@localhost) by sivka.rdy.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) id e9C7Cm903812; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:12:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dima) Message-Id: <200010120712.e9C7Cm903812@sivka.rdy.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf In-Reply-To: <425.971334444@winston.osd.bsdi.com> "from Jordan Hubbard at Oct 12, 2000 00:07:24 am" To: Jordan Hubbard Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:12:47 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , Tony Finch , John Baldwin , Doug Barton , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Warner Losh , Matt Dillon Organization: HackerDome Reply-To: dima@rdy.com From: dima@rdy.com (Dima Ruban) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan Hubbard writes: > > -On [20001012 04:00], Jordan Hubbard (jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com) wrote: > > >> I think there should be an option for sshd *only*, possibly with > > >> `sendmail -q30m` (i.e. mail service without an smtp listener) -- i.e. > > > > > >What good would the sendmail option do? Why not simply turn it off? > > > > To be able to send at least outbound mail? Or is this answer too > > obvious? > > Too obviously incorrect, perhaps. :) You don't need sendmail running > to send outbound mail. You just connect to port 25 on the destination > machine and cram the mail down its gullet. Not all the mailers work directly with port 25 on a remote machine by default. Quite a few simply put mail into the mail queue. That's where sendmail -qXm is usefull. > > - Jordan > -- dima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message