Re: Installing FreeBSD without sendmail

[Simon L. Nielsen]

[Yes, a bit off-topic for -stable, but -current is not really working ATM]

On 2004.04.12 05:02:06 -0700, Jamie Bowden wrote:
> On this note, sysinstall still puts 'sendmail_enable="NO"' in rc.conf if
> you tell it not to start any MTA as of 5.2.1-RELEASE, which isn't
> sufficient to stop sendmail from starting at boot time.

Could you elaborate?  I just tried with my 5.2.1 CD and when I select
None in the MTA selection menu, sendmail_enable="NONE" is added to
rc.conf.

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Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team


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Re: Installing FreeBSD without sendmail

[Jamie Bowden]

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, David Magda wrote:

> On Apr 10, 2004, at 16:06, Joe Halpin wrote:

> > Is it possible to install FreeBSD without sendmail? My machines are
> > behind a NAT firewall and don't

> No. A mailer is needed for various system functions (e.g., mailing of
> cron results) and sendmail is currently the default one (though you can
> install others from Ports).

> > have a domain name. Every time I install I have to wait for sendmail
> > to timeout looking for its domain name.

> Look in /etc/defaults/rc.conf for settings on sendmail(8). If you want
> to completely disable it set the following in /etc/rc.conf:

> sendmail_enable="NONE"

On this note, sysinstall still puts 'sendmail_enable="NO"' in rc.conf if
you tell it not to start any MTA as of 5.2.1-RELEASE, which isn't
sufficient to stop sendmail from starting at boot time.

Jamie Bowden

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