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Date:      Fri, 22 Sep 2000 18:01:32 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, security@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Subject:   Re: sendmail default run state 
Message-ID:  <200009230001.SAA20358@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <200009222012.OAA70984@harmony.village.org>
References:  <20000922215616.A33103@mithrandr.moria.org> <200009100358.e8A3wUG76071@netplex.com.au> <200009100415.e8A4F4G76156@netplex.com.au> <20000910154357.A78311@mithrandr.moria.org> <200009222012.OAA70984@harmony.village.org>

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> : I personally would really like 'sendmail_outbound_only="YES"' to be the
> : default in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, with an option in sysinstall's Network
> : Services for turning it on/off.
> 
> I like this a lot.  We have several machines in the Village that ARE
> NOT FOR EMAIL (caps ment to describe the tone of voice we have when we 
> talk about them).  These machiens generate email all the time, but
> should never receive email.  We solve this problem with a simple cron
> job that runs once a day after the daily/weekly/monthly scripts run to 
> deal with failures to send those right away.

I don't understand the issue.  I've got machines, and I just never
startup sendmail, but it sends email out just fine using the
null-client sendmail setup for 'locally' generated email.

This limits the sendmail connections to a known server, and doesn't
require sendmail to listen on port 25.

What am I missing?


Nate


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