Need Help With Sendmail.

[Kaj]

Hello!!

I want to use sendmail to generate security reports etc for my system.
I don't need it to send or receive mail via the outside etc...No
incoming connections or anything like that, what is the best way to go
about this?

Thanks..

[Kitche]

well it already does this

but I believe you want sendmail_enable="NONE" in your /etc/rc.conf to stop sendmail for outside email really

[SirDice]

well it already does this

but I believe you want sendmail_enable="NONE" in your /etc/rc.conf to stop sendmail for outside email really
That will prevent sendmail from running at all. You want sendmail_enable="NO". That will make sendmail run in local-submit-only mode.

[Mel_Flynn]

And really, you want to edit /etc/aliases and run newaliases afterwards, to set the root account to your email address. Otherwise you will have to view the mail locally all the time (it'll be in /var/mail/root).

[DutchDaemon]

Sendmail in its default install (with the default setting in /etc/defaults/rc.conf) will only handle locally generated mail (system mail, cron output etc.). If the 'root' address is pointed to some external email address (using /etc/mail/aliases), it will deliver this mail to the best of its ability, otherwise it will append the mail to /var/mail/root. So what you want is how it is right now.