From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 04:23:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81CFC16A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 04:23:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82E4F43F85 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 04:23:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hAICNTxM092071; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:23:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: (from bulk@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id hAICNTtu092070; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:23:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) X-Authentication-Warning: ei.bzerk.org: bulk set sender to mail25@bzerk.org using -f Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:23:29 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot To: Alex de Kruijff Message-ID: <20031118122329.GA91993@ei.bzerk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ruben de Groot , Alex de Kruijff , David Bear , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20031117174951.A26427@asu.edu> <20031118022926.GA3507@dds.nl> <20031118085949.GA90188@ei.bzerk.org> <20031118113622.GA389@dds.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031118113622.GA389@dds.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: David Bear cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: staring sendonly sendmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:23:14 -0000 On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:36:22PM +0100, Alex de Kruijff typed: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:59:49AM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:29:27AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff typed: > > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:49:51PM -0700, David Bear wrote: > > > > I do not want sendmail to receive message. > > > > > > > > I only want it to act as a local mta/mda and a sending agent. > > > > > > > > I have sendmail_enable="no" in rc.conf, but can quite seem to locate > > > > what else I need to start it as mentioned above. I googled "freebsd > > > > sendmail local delivery" but got way too many hits. > > > > > > Sendmail is setup so that it by default only allows mails to be send > > > from the local host. By setting the sendmail_enable to no you have > > > disabled this. > > > > Correction, this IS the default: > > > > ruben@ei:/home/ruben> grep sendmail_enable /etc/defaults/rc.conf > > sendmail_enable="NO" # Run the sendmail inbound daemon (YES/NO). > > > > Setting sendmail_enable to "NONE" is what will disable sending mail from > > the local host. The OP has allready configured sendmail the way he wants. > > I've seemed to made an error. Setting sendmail_enable="NO" results in > disableling incomming sendmail service. But you incorrect about the > default. It seems that you have modified /etc/defaults/rc.conf. Mine > (4.9) says YES. And according to this: > http://people.freebsd.org/~jkb/howto.html/ > "By default FreeBSD ships with sendmail enabled." ACK. I checked my -current box, where the default is "NO". Sorry for the confusion. Ruben > -- > Alex > > Articles based on solutions that I use: > http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/