Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:33:23 -0400 From: Rob Gabaree <lists@rawb.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do I need to completely disable sendmail? Message-ID: <B98F1608-D071-4EB9-BED3-1E6ACEA137CB@rawb.net> In-Reply-To: <20060924214248.GC6395@zloy.stilyagin.com> References: <E6429B1C-2FD8-4B84-95D5-04A3D492C970@rawb.net> <20060924214248.GC6395@zloy.stilyagin.com>
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Thanks. What I did was remove all lines except `sendmail_enable="NO"` and in / etc/mail/aliases, I setup the root alias to goto my real email address: root user@mydomain.com I setup my firewall to block incoming/outgoing email on ports 21/25 as well, so no one on the outside can access mail services. It seems to be working correctly, as I received mail as it was ran to my @mydomain.com email. Does this seem ok? Did I do anything wrong? Thanks, rob On Sep 24, 2006, at 5:42 PM, Darrin Chandler wrote: > On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 05:18:27PM -0400, Rob Gabaree wrote: >> >> So what should I do? Should I just have "sendmail_enable="NO"" in / >> etc/rc.conf, so only the incoming mail service is disabled? That way >> messages could be sent without the above errors? Or what? > > You should allow the system to send out it's mail. And it should go > somewhere meaningful (i.e., to you). And you should read it. > > All my systems send me mail every day, and I scan through it to make > sure everything is okay. That's what those messages are for. :) > > So, yes. You should disabled incoming, but allow submit, etc. You can > also firewall off incoming instead or in addition. > > -- > Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group > dwchandler@stilyagin.com | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ > http://www.stilyagin.com/ |
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