why do I need sendmail
Hello. Just to confirm: if I use dial-up connection on my laptop and use the ISP's smtp server to send emails, I don't really need sendmail's most functions, so it is safe to set 'sendmail=NO' in rc.conf without loosing local emails like weekly run output, is it? I was told nowadays many spam filters only accept smtp server's email when the smtp server is in the same domain as the sender's email address. So it seems I better not use the sendmail on my laptop to send emails in case they are filtered. Should I? Thank you. _ MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com/cn ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why do I need sendmail
One thing to note in Matthew's reply: that. However, automatic e-mails from your system -- usually from the periodic(8) scripts -- do require sendmail(8) or equivalent. Two words at the end, or equivalent. You can run Courier, Exim, Mini Sendmail, Nullmailer, Postfix, Qmail, ZMailer, so on and so forth. All have advantages and disadvantages. Personally, I use Postfix, but that is because for my needs it is better. If you have trouble reducing sendmail down to your needs, look at the documentation on the others. One of them might suit you better. Your mileage may vary, so on and so forth. --Eric ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why do I need sendmail
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:15:49 -0800 Cybertime Hostmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing to note in Matthew's reply: that. However, automatic e-mails from your system -- usually from the periodic(8) scripts -- do require sendmail(8) or equivalent. Two words at the end, or equivalent. You can run Courier, Exim, Mini Sendmail, Nullmailer, Postfix, Qmail, ZMailer, so on and so forth. All have advantages and disadvantages. Personally, I use Postfix, but that is because for my needs it is better. If you have trouble reducing sendmail down to your needs, look at the documentation on the others. One of them might suit you better. Your mileage may vary, so on and so forth. FWIW, you can also cause periodic(8) to log to a file instead of sending mail, by adding lines like the following to /etc/periodic.conf: daily_output=/var/log/dialy.log weekly_output=/var/log/weekly.log monthly_output=/var/log/monthly.log Not sure if this eliminates the need for a local mailer, but it's sure to be the first step down that road. I can't think of anything else that sends automated e-mails, offhand, but whatever does can probably be configured to write its output to a file instead, in a similar way. -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
