Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:56:43 +0100 From: Michael <mlmichael70@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail: My unqualified host name Message-ID: <4C29A73B.8070602@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100629002111.b616dbf2.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4C290B62.5060209@gmail.com> <20100628234349.6ad1a000.freebsd@edvax.de> <4C291E56.3090004@gmail.com> <20100629002111.b616dbf2.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 28/06/2010 23:21, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:12:38 +0100, Michael<mlmichael70@gmail.com> wrote: >> Yes but I don't quite understand why. It's my laptop system and I don't >> really need or want sendmail there. > > You may want to reconsider this statement. :-) > I did just that :) So far I thought sendmail is a big hairy thing that is completely useless on desktop systems. Now I learned that it is kind of crucial to proper system workings so in fact I do need it. Plus messages that it tried to deliver are important so I definitely do want it. > >> It was all fine and quiet for months and started just recently. > > So THAT is really strange. > So mystery is now solved since I got sendmail working locally. It turned out that ports update went wrong and messed up one program. That program was being run every minute via root's crontab... Thank you so much. M.
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