Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 23:54:13 -0600 From: Carol Deihl <carol@tinker.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: "Scott I. Remick" <scott@computeralt.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewall questions Message-ID: <38227105.43BA2183@tinker.com> References: <4.2.2.19991104094637.00cdd9f0@mail.computeralt.com> <3821B920.F1A47745@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters wrote:
>
> "Scott I. Remick" wrote:
> >
> > 2) Is sendmail necessary on a firewall?
>
> If you want to be able to send mail into the firewall, yes. For outgoing
> mail, sendmail is called directly. Outgoing mail that has to be queued up,
> for whatever reason, won't be resent unless you have sendmail running as
> a daemon.
>
Actually, you don't need to have sendmail running as a daemon to resend
queued mail. Just put something like this in your crontab (this one
tries to resend twice an hour):
# deliver mail that gets queued
5,35 * * * * root /usr/sbin/sendmail -q
Carol
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