On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:20:40 -0400 Sahil Tandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can turn off the Sendmail daemon so that it does not actually > listen for incoming connections or act as an MTA in the conventional > sense. But local utilities like cron can still invoke > the /usr/sbin/sendmail command to send you notifications. > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-December/107610.html > The default for sendmail is: sendmail_enable="NO sendmail_submit_enable="YES" which has the sendmail daemon listening only on localhost. It's fully functional in all respects except that it can't be accessed from outside. You can use localhost:25 as an outgoing mail server if you wish. Turning-off the localhost daemon altogether and having /usr/sbin/sendmail deliver local mail directly is possible, but it's deprecated on security grounds as it needs to run setuid. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"