Re: What is this sm-mta?

On 25/11/2022 19:07, iio7@tutanota.com wrote:
> I have the following options set in /etc/rc.conf
> 
> sendmail_enable="NO"
> sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
> 
> Yet I keep seeing a lot of sendmail activitity in /var/log/maillog:

To shut sendmail off completely you want

sendmail_enable="NONE"

> 
> Nov 25 03:35:41 foo sendmail[90110]: 2AP2ZeZo090110: to=root, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=37944, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]> Nov 25 03:35:41 foo sendmail[90110]: 2AK23ccD044156: to=postmaster,
delay=5+00:32:03, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=487250,
relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by
[127.0.0.1]
> Nov 25 03:35:41 foo sendmail[90110]: 2AK23ccD044156: 2AP2ZeZp090110: return to sender: Cannot send message for 5 days
> 
> What is all of this?

sendmail trying to pass root mail to localhost. This is because it's
unconfigured as you thought you weren't using it.

> 
> And also from sm-mta:
> 
> Nov 24 16:12:06 foo sm-mta[56897]: STARTTLS=server: file /etc/mail/certs/dh.param unsafe: No such file or directory
> Nov 24 18:39:14 foo sm-mta[12546]: starting daemon (8.16.1): SMTP+queueing@00:30:00
> Nov 24 18:39:14 foo sm-mta[12546]: STARTTLS=server: file /etc/mail/certs/dh.param unsafe: No such file or directory
> Nov 24 20:47:03 foo sm-mta[75966]: starting daemon (8.16.1): SMTP+queueing@00:30:00
> Nov 24 20:47:03 foo sm-mta[75966]: STARTTLS=server: file /etc/mail/certs/dh.param unsafe: No such file or directory
> 
> sm-mta doesn't seem to be documented anywhere?

It's sendmail by another name. I haven't run sendmail for years, but
from memory it's sendmail acting as a mail submission daemon.

It'll go away when you shut off sendmail properly.

>  There are no scripts in /etc/rc.d nor /usr/local/rc.d
> 
> Still the log is filling up with this in maillog.



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