Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:35:40 +0200 From: Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks@gmail.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cutting sendmail out of the loop Message-ID: <4E63E11C.4040408@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201109041801.MAA04495@lariat.net> References: <201109041801.MAA04495@lariat.net>
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Brett Glass schreef: > I'm creating some small FreeBSD servers that shouldn't be able to send > mail to, or receive mail from, the outside world. I was originally > just going to set sendmail_enable="NONE" in /etc/rc.conf and turn off > the mailing of output from various utilities (e.g. cron), but alas > there seem to be a few programs I may need to run that insist upon > sending mail. So, I'd like to see if I can set up local delivery of > mail without invoking the memory- and cpu-hungry program that is > sendmail. I'm therefore wondering what would happen if I just put > /usr/libexec.mail.local in as "sendmail" and "send-mail" in > mailer.conf and leaving out the rest of the entries. Does anyone on > the list have experience with doing this or something similar? > Sendmail has a lot of command line options that mail.local does not, > but they seem to be rarely invoked by programs that do things such as > mail output to a local user. > > --Brett Glass > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Maybe ssmtp is something you can use. It is in ports, it does get mail out of the system. I use it on all of my servers so i can receive the cron mails and so on. Personaly i think sendmail should be replaced by such small mailer. Also Dragonfly has removed Sendmail for there own small and clean mailer called DMA. DMA - DragonFly Mail Agent Gr Johan Hendriks Double L
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