jails, cron and sendmail

Tomoyuki Murakami tomoyuki at pobox.com
Sun Aug 27 06:54:58 UTC 2006


>>> On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 05:35:22 +0200 (CEST),
>>>  Dirk Engling <erdgeist at erdgeist.org> wrote:

erdgeist> Still: FreeBSD's /etc/ assumes and provides a working mail subsystem in
erdgeist> its default configuration. That exposes sendmail to the publicly visible
erdgeist> IP address. Shutting the mail sub system off causes trouble.

I have installed ssmtp-2.61 and set it in /etc/mail/mailer.conf
on my Jailed environment.
...
sendmail        /usr/local/sbin/ssmtp
send-mail       /usr/local/sbin/ssmtp

and sendmail_enable is "NONE" in /etc/rc.conf.

I don't think it's the best, but works fine.

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