Re: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?

2006-09-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
Robert C Wittig wrote: > Rob Gabaree wrote: >> Thanks. >> >> What I did was remove all lines except `sendmail_enable="NO"` and in >> /etc/mail/aliases, I setup the root alias to goto my real email address: >> >> root [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> I setup my firewall to block incoming/outgoing email on po

Re: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?

2006-09-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 05:18:27PM -0400, Rob Gabaree 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:

Re: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?

2006-09-24 Thread Robert C Wittig
Rob Gabaree wrote: Thanks. What I did was remove all lines except `sendmail_enable="NO"` and in /etc/mail/aliases, I setup the root alias to goto my real email address: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] I setup my firewall to block incoming/outgoing email on ports 21/25 as well, so no one on the outsi

Re: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?

2006-09-24 Thread Rob Gabaree
Thanks. What I did was remove all lines except `sendmail_enable="NO"` and in / etc/mail/aliases, I setup the root alias to goto my real email address: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] I setup my firewall to block incoming/outgoing email on ports 21/25 as well, so no one on the outside can access mail

Re: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?

2006-09-24 Thread Pete Slagle
Rob Gabaree wrote: > 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? Yes. You probably want to allow the server to send you administrative mail that

Re: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?

2006-09-24 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 05:18:27PM -0400, Rob Gabaree wrote: > > 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? You should allow the system

Re: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?

2006-09-24 Thread Michael S
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

Do I need to completely disable sendmail?

2006-09-24 Thread Rob Gabaree
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_ena

Re: Completely disable sendmail

2005-12-15 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:30:07AM +0100, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > Same thing with "NONE" instead of "NO", moreover `man sendmail.rc` says > > sendmail_enable > (str) If set to ``YES'', run the sendmail(8) daemon at system > boot time. If set to ``NO'', do not run a sendm

Re: Completely disable sendmail

2005-12-15 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On 12/15/05, Russell E. Meek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pietro, > > *sendmail_enable="NONE"* in your rc.conf will shutdown Sendmail > completely and globally. > Same thing with "NONE" instead of "NO", moreover `man sendmail.rc` says sendmail_enable (str) If set to ``YES'', run the

Re: Completely disable sendmail

2005-12-14 Thread Russell E. Meek
Pietro Cerutti wrote: Hi list, before someone begins to flame me, I'll tell you that I'm running 6.0-STABLE and that my rc.conf contains: sendmail_enable="NO" sendmail_submit_enable="NO" sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" In my crontab there is a job which runs every

Re: Completely disable sendmail

2005-12-14 Thread Doug Poland
le="NO" > sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" > sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" > /etc/defaults/rc.conf used to (5.x?) document sendmail_enable="NONE" to completely disable sendmail. Not sure where/if it's docum

Completely disable sendmail

2005-12-14 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Hi list, before someone begins to flame me, I'll tell you that I'm running 6.0-STABLE and that my rc.conf contains: sendmail_enable="NO" sendmail_submit_enable="NO" sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" In my crontab there is a job which runs every hour, and prints one line