Sendmail: Do I need it running?

Rus Foster rghf at fsck.me.uk
Sun Sep 28 08:58:21 PDT 2003


On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Ekrem wrote:

> Hi people,
>
> I'm using FreeBSD on my standalone desktop PC. I use dialup for the
> internet and use Evolution as the email client, but the following 2
> processes always running;
>
> sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail)
> sendmail: Queue runner at 00:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail)
>
> Do they need to be running for things like daily/weekly cron jobs that
> send emails to root, or for any other purpose?

No if you aren't using SMTP to receive email from outside your can disable
these by putting sendmail_enable="no" in /etc/rc.conf then just kill of
the processes

Rus
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