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Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:32:35 +0100
From:      "Zbigniew Szalbot" <zszalbot@gmail.com>
To:        Rob <bitabyss@gmail.com>
Cc:        Agus <agus.262@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Sendmail local only.....
Message-ID:  <94136a2c0801231132vd110f7fp55ffa0baa0185de5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <47978F63.2070107@gmail.com>
References:  <fda61bb50801221325p35aae924y116f74c2c026fa1c@mail.gmail.com> <47978F63.2070107@gmail.com>

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Hello,

2008/1/23, Rob <bitabyss@gmail.com>:
> Agus wrote:
> > Just trying to make sendmail work locally only.....And by that i mean, i
> > dont want sendmail to be able to relay or send mail to any other machine
> > except for localhost....
>
> I like to avoid sendmail all together.
>
> Install ports/mail/ssmtp
>
> Turn off sendmail:
> sendmail_enable="NONE"          # Run the sendmail inbound daemon (YES/NO/NONE).
> sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"   # Dequeue stuck mail (YES/NO).
> sendmail_submit_enable="NO"     # Start a localhost-only MTA for mail submission
>
> >From pkg-descr:
> "A secure, effective and simple way of getting mail off a system to your
> mail hub. It contains no suid-binaries or other dangerous things - no mail
> spool to poke around in, and no daemons running in the background. Mail is
> simply forwarded to the configured mailhost. Extremely easy configuration.
>
> WARNING: the above is all it does; it does not receive mail, expand aliases
> or manage a queue. That belongs on a mail hub with a system administrator.
>
> WWW: http://packages.debian.org/testing/mail/ssmtp.html

But this is not what OP has asked for!

Zbigniew Szalbot



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