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The rc.sendmail script can take an optional argument specifying the action to perform. The available actions are:
start | Starts both the MTA and the MSP queue runner. |
stop | Stops both the MTA and the MSP queue runner. |
restart | Restarts both the MTA and the MSP queue runner. |
start-mta | Starts just the MTA. |
stop-mta | Stops just the MTA. |
restart-mta | Restarts just the MTA. |
start-mspq | Starts just the MSP queue runner. |
stop-mspq | Stops just the MSP queue runner. |
restart-mspq | |
Restarts just the MSP queue runner. | |
If no action is specified, start is assumed.
The rc.sendmail script is also used by /etc/mail/Makefile to enable the Makefile's start, stop, and restart targets.
sendmail_enable | |
(str) If set to "YES", run the sendmail(8) daemon at system boot time. If set to "NO", do not run a sendmail(8) daemon to listen for incoming network mail. This does not preclude a sendmail(8) daemon listening on the SMTP port of the loopback interface. The "NONE" option is deprecated and should not be used. It will be removed in a future release. | |
sendmail_cert_create | |
(str) If sendmail_enable is set to "YES", create a signed certificate /etc/mail/certs/host.cert representing /etc/mail/certs/host.key by the CA certificate in /etc/mail/certs/cacert.pem. This will enable connecting hosts to negotiate STARTTLS allowing incoming email to be encrypted in transit. sendmail(8) needs to be configured to use these generated files. The default configuration in /etc/mail/freebsd.mc has the required options in it. | |
sendmail_cert_cn | |
(str) If sendmail_enable is set to "YES" and sendmail_cert_create is set to "YES", this is the Common Name (CN) of the certificate that will be created. If sendmail_cert_cn is not set, the system's hostname will be used. If there is no hostname set, "amnesiac" will be used. | |
sendmail_flags | |
(str) If sendmail_enable is set to "YES", these are the flags to pass to the sendmail(8) daemon. | |
sendmail_submit_enable | |
(bool) If set to "YES" and sendmail_enable is set to "NO", run sendmail(8) using sendmail_submit_flags instead of sendmail_flags. This is intended to allow local mail submission via a localhost-only listening SMTP service required for running sendmail(8) as a non-set-user-ID binary. Note that this does not work inside jail(2) systems, as jails do not allow binding to just the localhost interface. | |
sendmail_submit_flags | |
(str) If sendmail_enable is set to "NO" and sendmail_submit_enable is set to "YES", these are the flags to pass to the sendmail(8) daemon. | |
sendmail_outbound_enable | |
(bool) If set to "YES" and both sendmail_enable and sendmail_submit_enable are set to "NO", run sendmail(8) using sendmail_outbound_flags instead of sendmail_flags. This is intended to allow local mail queue management for systems that do not offer a listening SMTP service. | |
sendmail_outbound_flags | |
(str) If both sendmail_enable and sendmail_submit_enable are set to "NO" and sendmail_outbound_enable is set to "YES", these are the flags to pass to the sendmail(8) daemon. | |
sendmail_msp_queue_enable | |
(bool) If set to "YES", start a client (MSP) queue runner sendmail(8) daemon at system boot time. As of sendmail 8.12, a separate queue is used for command line submissions. The client queue runner ensures that nothing is left behind in the submission queue. | |
sendmail_msp_queue_flags | |
(str) If sendmail_msp_queue_enable is set to "YES", these are the flags to pass to the sendmail(8) daemon. | |
These variables are used to determine how the sendmail(8) daemons are started:
# MTA if (${sendmail_enable} == NONE) # Do nothing else if (${sendmail_enable} == YES) start sendmail with ${sendmail_flags} else if (${sendmail_submit_enable} == YES) start sendmail with ${sendmail_submit_flags} else if (${sendmail_outbound_enable} == YES) start sendmail with ${sendmail_outbound_flags} endif# MSP Queue Runner if (${sendmail_enable} != NONE && [ -r /etc/mail/submit.cf] && ${sendmail_msp_queue_enable} == YES) start sendmail with ${sendmail_msp_queue_flags} endif
To completely prevent any sendmail(8) daemons from starting, you must set the following variables in /etc/rc.conf:
sendmail_enable="NO" sendmail_submit_enable="NO" sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
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