From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 28 16:50:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resstor.ndsu.nodak.edu (resstor.ndsu.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F6AD37B42C for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:50:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ndsu.nodak.edu (marathon.reed.ndsu.NoDak.edu [134.129.54.1]) by resstor.ndsu.nodak.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA12548 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:50:04 -0500 Message-ID: <39D3D91B.E3117AA3@ndsu.nodak.edu> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:49:47 -0500 From: Jeff Blaufuss X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Disabling Sendmail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I want do disable sendmail on my machine to increase security, and because I don't use my computer as a mailserver. I have a question about disabling it though. If I disable sendmail will I still be able to send mail to other users on the same machine, like those security check messages that root gets every night? Is there a way to make sendmail refuse incoming connections while still allowing mail to be sent locally? Jeff Blaufuss To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message