Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:12:47 -0700 (PDT) From: dima@rdy.com (Dima Ruban) To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl>, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <200010120712.e9C7Cm903812@sivka.rdy.com> In-Reply-To: <425.971334444@winston.osd.bsdi.com> "from Jordan Hubbard at Oct 12, 2000 00:07:24 am"
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Jordan Hubbard writes: > > -On [20001012 04:00], Jordan Hubbard (jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com) wrote: > > >> I think there should be an option for sshd *only*, possibly with > > >> `sendmail -q30m` (i.e. mail service without an smtp listener) -- i.e. > > > > > >What good would the sendmail option do? Why not simply turn it off? > > > > To be able to send at least outbound mail? Or is this answer too > > obvious? > > Too obviously incorrect, perhaps. :) You don't need sendmail running > to send outbound mail. You just connect to port 25 on the destination > machine and cram the mail down its gullet. Not all the mailers work directly with port 25 on a remote machine by default. Quite a few simply put mail into the mail queue. That's where sendmail -qXm is usefull. > > - Jordan > -- dima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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