On Wed, 26 May 2004 13:27:07 +0100
Jonathon McKitrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : When local processes want to mail, they fork n exec a sendmail binary
> : themselves.
> :
> : You shouldn't need a sendmail server running for that.
>
> Here is what I have/had in rc.conf
>
> #sendmail_enable="no"
> #sendmail_submit_enable="no"
> #sendmail_outbound_enable="no"
> #sendmail_msp_queue_enable="no"
>
> And as soon as I restarted after commenting out these lines, root's mailbox
> got filled with megs of mail from cron. I want the minimum I need to get
> system mail without leaving an instance of sendmail vulnerable to attack or
> eating up resources.
This archive post may help you:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20031220102637.GB6942
Another document that may be of interest is
/etc/mail/README
> p.s. What mail reader is good for root mail? Is there anything better at
> managing system mail than mutt?
You can use any mail client. You can also read root's mail as any
user by adding an entry to /etc/aliases, for example:
# Pretty much everything else in this file points to "root", so
# you would do well in either reading root's mailbox or forwarding
# root's email from here.
# root: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
root: joeuser
All the mail that would have went to root will be forwarded to
"joeuser".
HTH,
Randy
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