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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!cdc2.cdc.net!news.texas.net!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4phpn4$4n0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4p7vg2$oov@tzlink.j51.com> <Pine.NEB.3.93.960609225538.1774B-100000@tomqnx.tomqnx.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E 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. ;-)