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Date:      Fri, 13 Oct 2000 00:27:08 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com>, Valentin Nechayev <netch@lucky.net>, Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf 
Message-ID:  <96598.971389628@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:22:48 PDT." <200010122222.e9CMMmG35106@netplex.com.au> 

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In message <200010122222.e9CMMmG35106@netplex.com.au>, Peter Wemm writes:

>IMHO, having sendmail *off* in rc.conf should mean "no sendmail at all",
>not having /usr/sbin/sendmail -q still being run behind your back.
>
>The daily processing shows the mailq already anyway.  If you don't at least
>occasionally read them, then you're not using the tools available to you.

Uhm, and how would you get the mailq output if mail just piles up ?

I think having rc.conf settings be: "off", "on", and "outgoing only"
is the solution here.

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