Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:00:48 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to revert back to older sendmail functionality Message-ID: <20020811100047.GA39233@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <102d1cb102c1ae.102c1ae102d1cb@mbox.com.au> References: <102d1cb102c1ae.102c1ae102d1cb@mbox.com.au>
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On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 07:16:13PM +1000, BSD Freak wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know how I can revert to pre 4.6 sendmail/FreeBSD > functionality? When sendmail_enable="NO" in rc.conf meant NO > SENDMAIL! I know I can do sendmail_enable="NONE" but that stops any > mail from being sent out from the localhost, and I'd rather not have > anything listening even on the loopback interface. > > More serious than this though is jail/sendmail functionality. With > sendmail_enable="NO" in a jail, sendmail binds to the real aliased > address and is accessible from other hosts (ie it binds to a REAL > address rather than the loopback interface! If I do put in > sendmail_enable="NONE" then I don't get the /etc/periodic reports > emailed to me. > > I want back pre-4.6 where there would be no daemon listening to accept > connections but mail could still be sent from the localhost. > > Any gurus out there know how I get it back? Read /etc/mail/README which describes two possible ways of accomplishing this. (The second of them is the way it was done in pre-4.6) Reading the rc.sendmail(8) manpage might also be informative. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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