The good news is, XMail is finally running properly. The bad news is, I'm
not exactly sure how.
To prevent sendmal from runnig under Freebsd, add to /etc/rc.conf the
following: sendmail_enable = NONE. However, I don't know why
sendmail would interfere with CtrlClnt, or if it would. You
I have never seen or used mta_start_script= - based on what you sent,
though, I doubt you are using it properly and I have no idea what the
side effects of your approach will be. My scripts in/etc/rc.d and
/usr/local/etc/rc.d start up fine without it (in 5.3. and 5.4). If it
works, though,