Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 12:39:23 +0200 From: "Loic Mahe'" <mahe@twam.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD and sendmail Message-ID: <38FD8CDB.D6FF2653@twam.com>
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Hello, I'm trying to use sendmail with my dialup connection. I looked at the FAQ (http://www.fr.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#ISPMAIL) and generated my sendmail.cf file. Sending mail works, but each time I launch sendmail (at boot time, manually (like sendmail -bt) or with mailq), the modem opens the connection to my ISP (even if the mail queue is empty). This problem seems to occur only on FreeBSD (I asked my question in a french mail-related newsgroup and Linux users told me that they have no such problem). I used tcpdump and found that 2 DNS queries are sent (and therefore lauch the modem since resolv.conf lists my ISP's DNS). Normally, sendmail uses a ServiceSwitch file to use /etc/hosts instead of bind, but is it used on FreeBSD ? It is not normal that the modem connects if there is no mail to send. Any help is welcome. Thanks. Loic/Toulouse, France PS : I'm on FreeBSD 3.1 with sendmail 8.9.2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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