Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:42:40 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Dave Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail??? Message-ID: <15154.2016.496415.395405@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <993131658.541.0.camel@tecra.home.net> References: <15152.55641.92889.763560@guru.mired.org> <993131658.541.0.camel@tecra.home.net>
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Dave Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net> types: > I thought sendmail was an MTA not an MDA like procmail.... You're right, it is. In the case under discussion, it's acting as a delivery agent, and I would have been correct to call it "the delivery agent". <mike > > Sendmail is just a delivery agent - and it isn't the only one on the > > system. Typing "mail" will read the mail, which should make it go away > > for now. The message proper comes from login - probably - and you can > > turn it off by creating a .hushlogin file in your home directory. That > > shuts off almost all the login messages, so that may not be desirable. > > If mail is being delivered to your mailbox on that system regularly, > > you may want to find out why, and deal with it appropriately. > > > > <mike > > -- > > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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