Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:32:01 -0800 From: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@freebsd.org> To: Ian <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: For Review: sendmail 8.12.2 import into -STABLE Message-ID: <15518.10673.452803.292181@horsey.gshapiro.net> In-Reply-To: <B8C376B1.B681%freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> References: <15513.38875.83457.102683@horsey.gshapiro.net> <B8C376B1.B681%freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>
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freebsd> I guess the functional question is: why is the local submission freebsd> daemon enabled by default? What does it even buy you to run it, freebsd> the docs don't seem to give any guidance about why it would or freebsd> wouldn't be a good idea to use a local submission daemon for a freebsd> given machine. Read /etc/mail/README. It goes into great detail as to why this is necessary and alternatives if you don't want a local submission daemon. freebsd> If running the local submission daemon is a good idea for some freebsd> reason, would it be possible to have that instance of sendmail freebsd> identify itself as such in the ps output? Something like freebsd> "sendmail: (accepting only local submissions)" would be less freebsd> surprising, I think. You can put this in your rc.conf: sendmail_submit_flags="-L sm-mta-submit -bd -q30m -ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=loca lhost -OProcessTitlePrefix=sendmail-local-only" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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