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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!mmcg From: mmcg@cs.monash.edu.au (Mike Mc Gaughey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: A Serious article for the FreeBSD support group Date: 24 Jun 1996 08:00:06 GMT Organization: Monash University Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4qlhu6$ffc@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> References: <4qcqts$t61@tzlink.j51.com> <31CB150C.4E191FC9@lambert.org> <4qkrlj$d4h@tzlink.j51.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: molly.cs.monash.edu.au X-NNTP-Posting-User: mmcg landau@yu1.yu.edu (k) writes: >>Sendmail is *not* a mandatory system component. >If this is ture, (which I agree is probably the case) why is freebsd >originally configured to poll for mail so that when I come back to the >machine the next morning. I get error messages accross the screen. >Your reply is correct, but you are not answering the question I am >asking. Furthermore, let's say that I did not intend to have my >machine on a network, why is there no documetation about how to stop >this procees from polling for the mail server each evening? Umm, I installed FreeBSD on 2 machines, using the menu-driven `novice installation'. One has a permanent (PPP) net connection, the other has none. I certainly haven't observed any such behaviour - and I haven't had to *touch* any network configuration stuff, beyond answering the questions asked by /stand/sysinstall (I gave both machines names and PPP setups, and hacked PPP until it worked properly). My machines run all the time. Mail works fine. Presuming you're not just trolling for flames, you might start wondering whether you've misconfigured something which was correct to start with? Cheers, Mike. -- Mike McGaughey AARNET: mmcg@molly.cs.monash.edu.au "Our books, entwined. Due for fond embrace forever. In silent despair." - for Kt.