From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 7:42:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 336E137B403 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 07:42:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 35323 invoked by uid 100); 21 Jun 2001 14:42:40 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15154.2016.496415.395405@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:42:40 -0500 To: Dave Leimbach Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail??? In-Reply-To: <993131658.541.0.camel@tecra.home.net> References: <15152.55641.92889.763560@guru.mired.org> <993131658.541.0.camel@tecra.home.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dave Leimbach types: > I thought sendmail was an MTA not an MDA like procmail.... You're right, it is. In the case under discussion, it's acting as a delivery agent, and I would have been correct to call it "the delivery agent". > Sendmail is just a delivery agent - and it isn't the only one on the > > system. Typing "mail" will read the mail, which should make it go away > > for now. The message proper comes from login - probably - and you can > > turn it off by creating a .hushlogin file in your home directory. That > > shuts off almost all the login messages, so that may not be desirable. > > If mail is being delivered to your mailbox on that system regularly, > > you may want to find out why, and deal with it appropriately. > > > > > -- > > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > -- Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message