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author | GNUxeava <bluenerd@protonmail.com> | 2022-04-29 10:01:29 +0000 |
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committer | GNUxeava <bluenerd@protonmail.com> | 2022-04-29 10:01:29 +0000 |
commit | bdda4db8991ff807e61d0af7ddc88ec19895ad89 (patch) | |
tree | c2ae32a29bbb8207c6938ad2be1dcc90abda6e9f /content/post | |
parent | 67bd29ca53b90c8ccb1a71e52b2189e609e78a34 (diff) |
Add disable sendmail freensd
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-rw-r--r-- | content/post/disable-sendmail-in-freebsd.md | 86 |
1 files changed, 86 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/content/post/disable-sendmail-in-freebsd.md b/content/post/disable-sendmail-in-freebsd.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3c0d52b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/disable-sendmail-in-freebsd.md @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +--- +title: "Disable sendmail in FreeBSD" +date: 2021-12-11T09:57:29Z +lastmod: 2022-04-29T09:57:29Z +draft: false +keywords: [sendmail freebsd] +description: "" +tags: [sendmail] +categories: [freebsd] +author: "" + +# You can also close(false) or open(true) something for this content. +# P.S. comment can only be closed +comment: false +toc: false +autoCollapseToc: false +postMetaInFooter: true +hiddenFromHomePage: false +# You can also define another contentCopyright. e.g. contentCopyright: "This is another copyright." +contentCopyright: false +reward: false +mathjax: false +mathjaxEnableSingleDollar: false +mathjaxEnableAutoNumber: false + +# You unlisted posts you might want not want the header or footer to show +hideHeaderAndFooter: false + +# You can enable or disable out-of-date content warning for individual post. +# Comment this out to use the global config. +#enableOutdatedInfoWarning: false + +flowchartDiagrams: + enable: false + options: "" + +sequenceDiagrams: + enable: false + options: "" + +--- + +I do not use emails on my FreeBSD machine so I did not bother setting it up. But it runs at startup and apparently prevents other services from starting till it finishes its job (I cannot ssh into this machine till sendmail decides it has had enough and stops). + +<!--more--> + +Change these lines to `/etc/mail/mailer.conf` to +``` +sendmail /usr/bin/true +mailq /usr/bin/true +newaliases /usr/bin/true +hoststat /usr/bin/true +purgestat /usr/bin/true +``` +And in `/etc/periodic/periodic.conf` to +``` +# disable sendmail (mailqueue) cleanups: +daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO" +daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" +daily_status_mailq_enable="NO" +daily_submit_queuerun="NO" + +# disable periodic's emailing by logging! +daily_output=/var/log/daily.log +weekly_output=/var/log/weekly.log +monthly_output=/var/log/monthly.log + +# put these into the log, instead of trying to mail them +daily_status_security_inline="YES" +weekly_status_security_inline="YES" +monthly_status_security_inline="YES" +``` +And in `/etc/rc.conf` to +``` +# disable sendmail +sendmail_enable="NO" +sendmail_submit_enable="NO" +sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" +sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" + +# don't allow cron to mail +cron_flags="-m ''" +``` + +Instructions taken from +[https://gist.github.com/igalic/c77ed494e102977c9fd06ce9b053cda0](https://gist.github.com/igalic/c77ed494e102977c9fd06ce9b053cda0) |