> Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:44:45 -0600
> From: Brett Glass
> Subject: Re: Cutting sendmail out of the loop
>
> Johan:
>
> Actually, since the system I'm building is meant to be very secure and
> appliance-like, it doesn't ever need to get mail "out of th
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 16:38:28 -0700
Michael Sierchio wrote:
> >
> > See mailer.conf(5) and mailwrapper(8)
> >
> Doesn't work in practice, since there are programs that don't honor
> this and invoke sendmail directly.
They're supposed to, /usr/sbin/sendmail is a symlink to mailwrapper. The
real send
Doesn't work in practice, since there are programs that don't honor
this and invoke sendmail directly.
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:55 PM, RW wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 15:08:11 -0700
> Michael Sierchio wrote:
>
>> I might suggest installing qmail, and running qmail-send only. This
>> involves movi
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 15:08:11 -0700
Michael Sierchio wrote:
> I might suggest installing qmail, and running qmail-send only. This
> involves moving /usr/sbin/sendmail out of the way, and
>
> ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
>
> which satisfies every invocation of sendmail I've see
On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 12:01:03 -0600
Brett Glass wrote:
> I'd like to see if I can set up
> local delivery of mail without invoking the memory- and cpu-hungry
> program that is sendmail.
I have the default settings and have 2 sendmail process with 3MB of
resident memory each, and I've never noti
I might suggest installing qmail, and running qmail-send only. This
involves moving /usr/sbin/sendmail out of the way, and
ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
which satisfies every invocation of sendmail I've seen. YMMV.
- M
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Brett Glass wrote:
> J
Johan:
Actually, since the system I'm building is meant to be very secure
and appliance-like, it doesn't ever need to get mail "out of the
system." And it has limited memory, so it shouldn't be running a
mail daemon. At most, it needs a mail system that can ONLY mail
locally, solely for the p
Brett Glass schreef:
I'm creating some small FreeBSD servers that shouldn't be able to send
mail to, or receive mail from, the outside world. I was originally
just going to set sendmail_enable="NONE" in /etc/rc.conf and turn off
the mailing of output from various utilities (e.g. cron), but alas
I'm creating some small FreeBSD servers that shouldn't be able to
send mail to, or receive mail from, the outside world. I was
originally just going to set sendmail_enable="NONE" in /etc/rc.conf
and turn off the mailing of output from various utilities (e.g.
cron), but alas there seem to be a f
