Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:00:58 -0600 From: "Andrew Falanga" <af300wsm@gmail.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The consequences of turning off sendmail Message-ID: <340a29540809272100of501fb2pd0c0c7a915ed1ae2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080928022040.GC36499@shepherd> References: <340a29540809271827r57503ca7o9f8916a7d5fade8@mail.gmail.com> <20080928022040.GC36499@shepherd>
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On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net> wrote: > Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This question comes from complete ignorance about this stuff (what >> happens when turning off sendmail), but if I turn off sendmail will >> system messages still get delivered? Also, I'm going to be using this >> box as a web server and I'm using Joomla!. If I turn this off, will I >> still get the notifications that new users have signed on, etc.? I'd >> like to turn it off because the box doesn't sit inside of a fully >> qualified domain (it sits inside a 192.168.x/24 network), but will >> host web services for www.whitneybaptist.org. Obviously, requests >> sent to 72.24.34.252 on port 80 are forwarded to this box (actually, >> internally it's 192.168.2.23). Also, (for those who have endured >> helping me work through the issues with our mail server) until I get >> things worked out with DNS this new server will not be hosting e-mail >> for this domain (whitneybaptist.org), that's temporarily being done at >> google mail. >> >> So, basically, what sort of trouble am I going to get into by turning >> off sendmail? Also, I think I'm going to implement DNS, an internal >> thing, to make this box happy and then point the resolver to use the >> Internet DNS servers for everything else. > > You can turn off the Sendmail daemon so that it does not actually listen > for incoming connections or act as an MTA in the conventional sense. > But local utilities like cron can still invoke the /usr/sbin/sendmail > command to send you notifications. > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-December/107610.html > Thanks, just wanted to make sure before doing it. Andy
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