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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can anyone help with a FreeBSD PPP connection
Date: 10 Jun 1996 18:32:04 GMT
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Tom Torrance at home <tom@tomqnx.com> wrote:

> I could not get sendmail to work properly in that setup (it really wants
> to be connected to the Internet) but I compiled and installed smail in
> ports.

That's not true.  It's possible to configure sendmail to not ask the
nameservers.

FEATURE(nodns)dnl
FEATURE(nocanonify)dnl

...in your .mc file do the trick.

(Anyway, uucp is still the best solution for a transfer protocol for a
partially connected site, since it does a great job in batched file
transfers.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)