Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 11:49:58 -0800 (PST) From: Keith Woodworth <kwoody@citytel.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: 4.7 and Sendmail Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10303081104200.9189-100000@pop.citytel.net>
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Just installed a new 4.7 machine and find some of the behaviours different compared to other versions. Main one seems to be sendmail. I setup the usual resolv.conf search mydomain.net nameserver ip.add.res.s the machine is registerd in DNS with an A record (machine will move to another IP at some point so didnt setup a PTR) In aliases setup to send roots' mail to me. Not getting anything, but it is queued and sendmail deferrs it cause it cant reach: localhost.mydomain.net Firing up sendmail -bd and doing a: mail root mail goes fine and I processed the mail queue manually all the messages there got sent. All the FBSD machines I have run in the past dont need sendmail running as a process so have disabled it on start up and mail has worked just fine just by setting DNS, resolv.conf and adding an alias to forward roots mail to me at another address. Searching the Handbook/FAQ did not find much, but the archives I found a post stating that: sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=YES sendmail_msp_queue_enable=YES will work but then I have to run a sendmail process. I found another post that since 4.6 you have to run sendmail so as to accept mail from localhost. Is this right? I'd rather not have to run the sendmail process on a machine if I dont have to since I dont run sendmail as a process on the 3 other FBSD machines we have around. We lost touch with sendmail when we retired out last machine running sendmail about a year and a half ago. Thanks for any clarification on this. Keith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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