From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 26 13:41:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from proverbs.outreachnetworks.com (proverbs.outreachnetworks.com [65.196.249.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A08A237B41F for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:41:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 25727 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2002 21:41:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO phoncella.outreachnetworks.com) (65.196.249.11) by proverbs.outreachnetworks.com with SMTP; 26 Mar 2002 21:41:09 -0000 Received: (from elh@localhost) by phoncella.outreachnetworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2QLeNr13013 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:40:23 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: phoncella.outreachnetworks.com: elh set sender to elh@outreachnetworks.com using -f Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:40:22 -0500 From: "Eric L. Howard" To: "'stable@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sendmail 8.12.2 MFC'ed Message-ID: <20020326164022.G8122@outreachnetworks.com> Mail-Followup-To: "'stable@freebsd.org'" References: <20020326155349.F8122@outreachnetworks.com> <15520.58661.435800.146259@horsey.gshapiro.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <15520.58661.435800.146259@horsey.gshapiro.net>; from gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 01:16:21PM -0800 X-Favorite-Scripture: Romans 8:18 X-Theocratic-Rule-Advocate: http://www.crossmovement.com X-Registered-Secret-Agent: Agent Double-Naught Seven X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.7-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At a certain time, now past, Gregory Neil Shapiro spake thusly: > >> One question about this: now that we have 4 different ways to run sendmail, > >> which do I run simply to get the output from periodic mailed correctly? > >> That's all I use sendmail for and I'd like to keep its use to a minimum. > >> Thanks. > >> > > elh> You don't need to run sendmail as a daemon for this...just add an > elh> alias for root in /etc/aliases for where you want root's mail to end > elh> up...run newaliases and away you go. > > With 8.12, you do need a daemon to accept the mail from the "command line" > submission. See /etc/mail/README for an explanation. Maybe I shoud have inserted a disclaimer... *I have not run sendmail for production SMTP services for 2 years...pay no attention to me!* I don't know...that seems a little wrong to me...and to explore here will probably lead us all way off-topic. Thanx for the correction. ~elh -- Eric L. Howard e l h @ o u t r e a c h n e t w o r k s . c o m ------------------------------------------------------------------------ www.OutreachNetworks.com 313.297.9900 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Advocate of the Theocratic Rule To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message