Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:06:22 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Christopher Nehren <apeiron@comcast.net> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: send-pr(1) requires local mail daemon, breach of contract for Comcast users Message-ID: <3E6E41BE.4010607@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <1047405242.3393.59.camel@prophecy> References: <1047405242.3393.59.camel@prophecy>
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Christopher Nehren wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD as the only operating system on my home machine, > using Comcast non-professional as my ISP. My problem is that send-pr is > written to use a local mail daemon to send mail to the GNATS submission > site. Running a mail daemon, however, is strictly and expressly > prohibited by Comcast's Terms of Service. Is there another way of > submitting bug reports that doesn't require me to either breach my > contract with my ISP, or manually copy and paste text for each report > (yes, I've checked the web interface, which is 'currently disabled')? Just configure sendmail for local submission only (see the docs on rc.conf and the new configuratin options for sendmail) That is NOT in breach of your contract since sendmail is NOT running as a daemon at that point. If you're worried about false accusations ... running sendmail in local submission mode will not expose an SMTP port to the network, nor will it look any different when it delivers than any other mail sending program. Just make sure to configure smart host to send to your ISPs mail gateway. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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