why do I need sendmail

2003-12-20 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. Just to confirm: if I use dial-up connection on my laptop and use the ISP's smtp server to send emails, I don't really need sendmail's most functions, so it is safe to set 'sendmail=NO' in rc.conf without loosing local emails like weekly run output, is it? I was told nowadays many spam

Re: why do I need sendmail

2003-12-20 Thread Cybertime Hostmaster
One thing to note in Matthew's reply: that. However, automatic e-mails from your system -- usually from the periodic(8) scripts -- do require sendmail(8) or equivalent. Two words at the end, or equivalent. You can run Courier, Exim, Mini Sendmail, Nullmailer, Postfix, Qmail, ZMailer, so on

Re: why do I need sendmail

2003-12-20 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:15:49 -0800 Cybertime Hostmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing to note in Matthew's reply: that. However, automatic e-mails from your system -- usually from the periodic(8) scripts -- do require sendmail(8) or equivalent. Two words at the end, or equivalent.