Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:21:10 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> Cc: Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com>, FBSDQ <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Periodic mails Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0206251419381.27038-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0206251431030.4973-100000@gren.cs.umu.se>
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On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Paul Everlund wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Jan Grant wrote: > > ----------> Thanks for your reply! > > > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > > > > > The connection attempt message you see in your /var/log/messages is > > > generated by the log-in-vain rc.conf option because you do not have > > > software listening on port 25 the pop3 server front door. > > > Do you have qpopper installed? > > > > Eh? Port 25 is for SMTP, not POP. > > > > > Do nslookup 192.168.0.5 to see what that ip address is. > > > > The address given is a nonrouable local address; potentially the > > address attached to an internal NIC. > > Yep, but my periodic mail should be send to localhost, so the address > do not have to be routable. On the other hand it is strange it tries > to send the mail via my firewall computer. > > > There are now four (count 'em!) sendmail switches that can be used in > > /etc/rc.conf - see your updated /etc/default/rc.conf for details. This > > was discussed in freebsd-stable when the changeover happened, so you may > > find more information there. Anyhoo, they are: > > Am not subscribed to freebsd-stable. It's hard to just keep up with > freebsd-questions. :-) > > > sendmail_enable="YES" # Run the sendmail inbound daemon (YES/NO/NONE). > > # If NONE, don't start any sendmail processes. > > sendmail_submit_enable="YES" # Start a localhost-only MTA for mail > > submission > > sendmail_outbound_enable="YES" # Dequeue stuck mail (YES/NO). > > sendmail_msp_queue_enable="YES" # Dequeue stuck clientmqueue mail (YES/NO). > > > > You probably want NO, YES, YES, YES, respectively. > > This setup, does it permit mails only from and to the localhost? > I want my computer to be totally closed to the outside when it > comes to mail. Only internal mail on the same machine should be > allowed. In which case, NO, YES, NO, YES. And then the answer to your question is (pretty closely) yes. Only localhost can originate mail; you should still be able to target mail to an offsite address; you need to fiddle with sendmail if you want to turn that facility off. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk (ECHOY GRUNTING) (EERIE WHISPERS) aren't subtitles great? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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