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Subject: Re: sendmail_enable="NO"
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On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Vivek Khera wrote:

>
> On Dec 31, 2005, at 6:56 PM, security wrote:
>
> > And the rc.sendmail(8) under 5.4 stable says that "NONE" is
> > deprecated and will be removed in a future release.  According to
> > the man page,
>
> It says that in 6.0 also, so it will probably be at least until 7.0
> that it continues to work.
>
> Personally, I think having to set a bazillion variables to turn off
> sendmail in rc.conf and periodic.conf is just a pain (and probably a

Strongly seconded.  There should be one knob to disable the
entire thing.  SENDMAIL_ENABLE=NO should disable *everything*
without touching any other knobs.

> wrong design as it totally violates POLA), but at least it is just a
> cut/paste everytime I set up a new server.

-- 
DE