Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 15:04:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru <dlavigne6@cogeco.ca> To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail and rc.conf Message-ID: <20020803145501.J6396-100000@x1-6-00-80-c8-3a-b8-46.kico2.on.cogeco.ca> In-Reply-To: <200208031336.51447.bts@babbleon.org>
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On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > > On Saturday 03 August 2002 01:29 pm, Dru wrote: > | I've been unable to find a good explanation (and hope a guru will be kind > | enough to provide one) regarding the best rc.conf option to choose if a > | user just wants to be able to send mail. > | > | If I choose sendmail_enable="NONE", I can send email and sockstat shows > | port 25 open on the localhost. If I choose sendmail_enable="NO", port 25 > | no longer shows up but I appear to lose the ability to send mail. Is > | "NONE" as good as it gets and does it leave port 25 all the way open or > | just to the localhost? > | > | Any comments, explanations, pointers to URLs? I don't think I'm the only > | person out there confused about this. > > > This depends entirely on how you are trying to send mail. > > If you use an SMTP/POP-enabled mail program, then you can send mail directly > to your ISP using those protocols regardless of the local MTA. > > But if the mail program is set up to expect a local sendmail to send and/or to > find mail in /var/spool/mail, then you'd need to have sendmail doing > something to make that work. > > With sendmail set to NONE, I don't see how you could send mail other than by > using SMTP, but if you are using SMTP, then setting sendmail to NO should not > disable that. > > So perhaps you can provide some more details on your setup? > > I will say that getting basic mail setup working is *way* harder than it ought > to be. Some basic "pre-canned setups" for common cases where you could just > plug in your ISP name would be a really helpful thing. Hrrmmmm. So I guess the answer is "it depends upon your MUA". Which would be very confusing to a newbie, especially since it is hard enough wading through the mail section of the ports without having to also decipher out of the description whether or not a particular port is SMTP enabled. Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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