From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 13 16:34: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c1870039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D741F37BE86 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:33:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id BAA29721; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 01:33:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3946C4E3.5C408ABE@nisser.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 01:33:55 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Tyler Spivey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail References: <20000612143212.D18462@fw.wintelcom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Tyler Spivey [000612 14:31] wrote: > > sendmail is a pain in the arse. i do not want it to start up, how do i shut > > the bloody thing off? it spews out it cant find my domain name.. so what? i > > hate sendmail, i dont need it actually. > > see /etc/defaults/rc.conf, apply changes to /etc/rc.conf Without an alternate mailer wouldn't that cause at least some slowness in the periodic scripts? Root gets a "lot" of fanmail. Which also addresses the latest remark in the origal message. You do if you like to receive those messages. Well, that or an alternate MTA like postfix, exim, qmail, whatever. Roelof -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Eboa (ingenieursburo Office Automation) web. http://eboa.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message