Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 09:34:20 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> To: jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard) Cc: jruigrok@via-net-works.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven), dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch), jhb@FreeBSD.org (John Baldwin), DougB@gorean.org (Doug Barton), cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, imp@village.org (Warner Losh), dillon@earth.backplane.com (Matt Dillon) Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <200010120734.e9C7YK706623@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <425.971334444@winston.osd.bsdi.com> from Jordan Hubbard at "Oct 12, 2000 00:07:24 am"
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> > >> 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. I haven't seen patches go in that make the daily, weekly and monthly emails do that. :-) Also some mailers like elm assume a local sendmail or equivalent. So I think running it with -q30m by default is a good compromise. At least then mail won't just queue up in the queue with nobody the wiser. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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