I have the same four lines in rc.conf, but that is because I installed postfix. If you want to disable it completely, you'd use sendmail_enable="NONE", but you wouldn't be able receive messages sent by crontab, syslogd, etc.
Michael --- Rob Gabaree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a remote server that I don't plan on using > for email as I have > another server to handle that. My question is.. is > it a bad idea to > _completely_ disable sendmail on that machine? > Right now /etc/ > rc.conf has: > > sendmail_enable="NO" > sendmail_submit_enable="NO" > sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" > sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" > > But I checked /var/log/maillog and saw about 5 > archives of messages > that looked like this: > > Sep 24 03:01:09 ny sendmail[63140]: k8I719YD078452: > k8O71858063140: > return to sender: Cannot send message for 5 days > Sep 24 03:01:09 ny sendmail[63140]: k8O71858063140: > to=postmaster, > delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, > pri=49386, relay= > [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection > refused by [127.0.0.1] > > So what should I do? Should I just have > "sendmail_enable="NO"" in / > etc/rc.conf, so only the incoming mail service is > disabled? That way > messages could be sent without the above errors? Or > what? > > Thanks for any help. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
