Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 18:24:42 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, security@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Subject: Re: sendmail default run state Message-ID: <200009230024.SAA20488@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <20000923021119.A35919@mithrandr.moria.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> <200009230001.SAA20358@nomad.yogotech.com> <20000923021119.A35919@mithrandr.moria.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? > > How do you enable nullclient from rc.conf? > Gotcha. > What happens if your smarthost server goes down - when does sendmail > check your queue again? It doesn't go down. :) > Two different issues - sendmail for queueing and delivery, but not > listening to network, and sendmail with smarthost. We can emulate the > first in the rc system, but not obviously easily the second. True. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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