Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:05:14 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nagy_L=E1szl=F3_Zsolt?= <nagylzs@freemail.hu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail not working? Message-ID: <C131E8DC-8853-4740-B443-697137CBD118@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <45F94706.9090201@freemail.hu> References: <45F86213.10604@designaproduct.biz> <6.0.0.22.2.20070314160910.024dc2f8@mail.computinginnovations.com> <45F867D4.4060405@freemail.hu> <20070314174657.4741d926@localhost> <45F94706.9090201@freemail.hu>
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On Mar 15, 2007, at 6:15 AM, Nagy L=E1szl=F3 Zsolt wrote: > I know it is not the newest, but should work. I rebooted the =20 > machine, but it did not help. By the way, I do NOT want postfix to =20 > listen on TCP/25. I have to use an ssh tunnel. But I would like to =20 > be able to deliver e-mail messages locally. > > Here is what I did for now: > > - deinstalled postfix > - changed mailer.conf back to the original version > - disabled postfix and re-enabled sendmail in rc.conf > - started sendmail with "/etc/rc.d/sendmail start" > > And it works! But why couldn't I do this with postfix? Sendmail combines the functionality of something which listens on =20 port 25 (aka a MTA), with something which performs local delivery =20 (aka a MDA, Mail Delivery Agent), although sendmail can also be =20 configured to use procmail, the OS/vendor-specific MDA "mail.local" =20 or similar, etc. However, if sendmail is not configured to use an =20 external MDA, it will perform local delivery without needing to route =20= the mail via the MTA first. Postfix is designed to keep a firm separation of MTA and MDA =20 functionality for security reasons and always wants to receive =20 incoming mail via the MTA...it will not short-circuit to doing local =20 delivery the way sendmail can. --=20 -Chuck
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