Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:33:51 -0500
From: Eric Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: closer, no cigar.
On Tuesday 13 July 2004 22:19, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> The first of these processes is sendmail started in submit mode by
> the `rc.sendmail' startup script. The relevant rc.conf options are:
>
> : sendmail_enable="NO"
> : sendmail_submit_enable="YES"
> : sendmail_submit_flags="-L smtpd -bd -q30m
> : -ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=localhost"
>
> - Giorgos
Can you exlpain exactly what submit mode is for? Is it something
you want running on a production mail server?
Thanks.
Sendmail's submit mode is described in detail in the ``Sendmail
Installation and Operation Guide''. It would be vain and probably
worthless to try to duplicate all the information present in there in a
mail message. For details of the what, how, why, when and anything else
related to the submit mode you should refer to this guide[1], the
FreeBSD Handbook, and Sendmail's own web site[2].
Perhaps a small description of submit mode would be enough to help you
understand what it is. Quoting section 1.3.3 of the guide referenced above:
1.3.3. /etc/mail/submit.cf
This is the configuration file for sendmail when it is
used for initial mail submission, in which case it is
also called ``Mail Submission Program'' (MSP) in
contrast to ``Mail Transfer Agent'' (MTA). Starting
with version 8.12, sendmail uses one of two different
configuration files based on its operation mode (or the
new -A option). For initial mail submission, i.e., if
one of the options -bm (default), -bs, or -t is
specified, submit.cf is used (if available), for other
operations sendmail.cf is used. Details can be found in
sendmail/SECURITY. submit.cf is shipped with sendmail
(in cf/cf/) and is installed by default. If changes to
the configuration need to be made, start with
cf/cf/submit.mc and follow the instruction in cf/README.
References
==========
[1] ``Sendmail(TM) Installation and Operation Guide''.
http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc8.12/op.html
[2] Sendmail's homepage
http://www.Sendmail.org/
[3] Sendmail's Message Submission Program (MSP)
http://www.sendmail.org/m4/msp.html
[4] Description of FEATURE(`msp')
http://www.sendmail.org/m4/features.html#msp
[5] FreeBSD Handbook Chapter on Electronic Mail
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html
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