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-rw-r--r--etc/mail/README11
-rw-r--r--share/man/man8/rc.sendmail.83
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/etc/mail/README b/etc/mail/README
index f3608fa..fd7c8f6 100644
--- a/etc/mail/README
+++ b/etc/mail/README
@@ -11,11 +11,12 @@ default) holds the mail if an MTA can not be contacted.
To accomplish this, under the default setup, an MTA must be listening on
localhost port 25. If the rc.conf sendmail_enable option is set to "NO",
a sendmail daemon will still be started and bound only to the localhost
-interface in order to accept command line submitted mail. If this is not
-a desirable solution, it can be disabled using the sendmail_submit_enable
-rc.conf option. However, if both sendmail_enable and sendmail_submit_enable
-are set to "NO", you must do one of two things for command line submitted
-mail:
+interface in order to accept command line submitted mail (note that this
+does not work inside jail(2) systems as jails do not allow binding to
+just the localhost interface). If this is not a desirable solution, it
+can be disabled using the sendmail_submit_enable rc.conf option. However,
+if both sendmail_enable and sendmail_submit_enable are set to "NO", you
+must do one of two things for command line submitted mail:
1. Designate an alternative host for the submission agent to contact
by altering /etc/mail/freebsd.submit.mc (or setting SENDMAIL_SUBMIT_MC
diff --git a/share/man/man8/rc.sendmail.8 b/share/man/man8/rc.sendmail.8
index 86783d4..50e6749 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/rc.sendmail.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/rc.sendmail.8
@@ -139,6 +139,9 @@ This is intended to allow local mail submission via
a localhost-only listening SMTP service required for running
.Xr sendmail 8
as a non-set-user-ID binary.
+Note that this does not work inside
+.Xr jail 2
+systems as jails do not allow binding to just the localhost interface.
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