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Date:      Tue, 5 Jan 2016 11:25:39 -0700
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
To:        olli hauer <ohauer@gmx.de>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r405234 - in head/mail/postfix: . files
Message-ID:  <2E5E495E-E977-4544-B419-EB58E096C092@adamw.org>
In-Reply-To: <568BF4A9.6080000@gmx.de>
References:  <201601041033.u04AXQsP045550@repo.freebsd.org> <6905C58D-FB6E-4FAA-9E83-2FDD0CCDDFD7@adamw.org> <568BF4A9.6080000@gmx.de>

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> On Jan 5, 2016, at 09:51, olli hauer <ohauer@gmx.de> wrote:
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>> On 2016-01-05 17:11, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>>=20
>>> On 4 Jan, 2016, at 3:33, Olli Hauer <ohauer@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>=20
>>> Author: ohauer
>>> Date: Mon Jan  4 10:33:26 2016
>>> New Revision: 405234
>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/405234
>>>=20
>>> Log:
>>> - rework pkg-install and pkg-message [1]
>>>=20
>>> -If you not need sendmail anymore, please add in your rc.conf:
>>> -
>>> -sendmail_enable=3D"NO"
>>> -sendmail_submit_enable=3D"NO"
>>> -sendmail_outbound_enable=3D"NO"
>>> -sendmail_msp_queue_enable=3D"NO"
>>> -
>>> +Run the following commands to enable postfix during startup:
>>> +  - sysrc postfix_enable=3D"YES"
>>> +  - sysrc sendmail_enable=3D"NONE"
>>=20
>> Hi Olli,
>>=20
>> rc.sendmail(8) says:
>>     sendmail_enable
>>              The ``NONE'' option is deprecated and should not be
>>              used.  It will be removed in a future release.
>>=20
>> To future-proof the pkg-message, you might want to keep the original 4 _e=
nable=3D"NO" commands in there.
>>=20
>> # Adam
>=20
> Hi Adam,
>=20
> ups, thanks for the hint!
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> If this short form will go away (announced already since FreeBSD 5.0) we h=
ave to fix also all other mailer, where I looked what thy are telling the us=
er.
>=20
> I have more concerns that at some time sendmail and *mailwrapper* will be p=
rovided as dedicated (pkg) package for the FreeBSD OS and we have to fiddle t=
his out in the pkg-install script ...
>=20
> If you like I can change it back to the 4 lines instructions (but I would t=
end to 'rm' the 'NONE is deprecated' statement from rc.sendmail)

I had no idea it had been "deprecated" for that long! I agree with everythin=
g you said. NONE makes far more sense than having to use four separate direc=
tives.=20

A pkg keyword would definitely be best though. It would be nice to have ever=
y MTA handle mailer.conf in the same, predictable way.

# Adam


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