Re: [vps-mail] Separate Mail Server

["Andy McKell, FOCUS Internet" <mac@xxxxxxxx>]

At 01:10 PM 9/22/2004 -0600, you wrote:

> Here's how I have disabled incoming mail on VPS2.
>
> Add the following line to the file /etc/rc.conf:
>
> sendmail_enable="NO"
>
> This will override the default value that appears in the file
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf, which is
>
> sendmail_enable="YES"
>
> The "NO" value says not to run the sendmail inbound daemon. (A third
> possible value of "NONE" says not to run either the inbound or the
> outbound sendmail daemon.)
>
> Whenever I chang the /etc/rc.conf file, I generally reboot the server
> (with the "reboot" command--it is pretty fast on VPS2!)
>
> On a reboot, FreeBSD will read the defaults from /etc/defaults/rc.conf, as
> well as the "overrides" in /etc/rc.conf, and start only the outbound
> sendmail daemon.

How does this affect the smtp server(s) - does it stop users from sending 
mail out over the server?

What if someone on the server wants to send a mail to someone else on the 
same server? Normally, this is routed "internally", but how would your 
changes affect such emails?

Andy
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