how do I see security logs without turning on sendmail?

[Tuareg]

On 12/14/06, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu> wrote:
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>
> I haven't followed this whole thread so I may be jumping in to the
> wrong place, but...
> Somewhere it is documented - I have read it - that various utilities
> such as mail invoke single instances of sendmail to transfer their
> _outgoing only_ messages.   I think, in those cases, sendmail clears
> the mail queue before going away.   They do not start sendmail as a
> daemon or to receive email.
>
> Probably some searching will find that documentation.
>
> ////jerry
>
>
Hello Jerry, maybe you read about ssmtp?
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/outgoing-only.html

But no, this tool it's not installed.

Thank you for your help anyway.  :)