staring sendonly sendmail

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:59:49AM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:29:27AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff typed:
> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:49:51PM -0700, David Bear wrote:
> > > I do not want sendmail to receive message.  
> > > 
> > > I only want it to act as a local mta/mda and a sending agent.
> > > 
> > > I have sendmail_enable="no" in rc.conf, but can quite seem to locate
> > > what else I need to start it as mentioned above.  I googled "freebsd
> > > sendmail local delivery" but got way too many hits.
> > 
> > Sendmail is setup so that it by default only allows mails to be send
> > from the local host. By setting the sendmail_enable to no you have
> > disabled this.
>  
> Correction, this IS the default:
> 
> ruben at ei:/home/ruben> grep sendmail_enable /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> sendmail_enable="NO"    # Run the sendmail inbound daemon (YES/NO).
>
> Setting sendmail_enable to "NONE" is what will disable sending mail from
> the local host. The OP has allready configured sendmail the way he wants.

I've seemed to made an error. Setting sendmail_enable="NO" results in
disableling incomming sendmail service. But you incorrect about the
default. It seems that you have modified /etc/defaults/rc.conf. Mine
(4.9) says YES. And according to this:
http://people.freebsd.org/~jkb/howto.html/
"By default FreeBSD ships with sendmail enabled."

-- 
Alex

Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/