On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 01:32:29PM +0000, Conrad Winchester wrote:
| First of all hi! My name is Conrad and I am new to the world of OpenBSD,
but
| not unix in general.
|
| I have just done my first install of a server using OpenBSD and am
extremely
| impressed.
|
| I do have one question though and I apologize if people always ask this: At
| the end of the install I asked whether I want to run sshd and ntpd by
| default - very nice BUT why am I not given the option to turn off Sendmail
| at this point? I NEVER use sendmail and for an OS that prides itself on
| being as minimal as possible I would have thought giving you the option to
| not run sendmail would also be there right from the start.
You do use sendmail (or at least an MTA). Let your system run for a
day and check your mail. You'll notice daily scripts sending you nice
informative stuff about your system. These can not be sent without a
running MTA.
Also note that the default sendmail has been configured to only accept
e-mail from localhost (it listens on 127.0.0.1:25 by default).
If you prefer any other MTA, install that from packages and use it,
but you'll break your system by disabling all MTA functionality.
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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