Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 23:26:49 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: "Chad Leigh, Pengar Enterprises, Inc & Shire.Net LLC" <chad@pengar.com> Cc: Charles Burns <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Several questions that I can't seem to find on answers to on Google Message-ID: <20010302232649.A5359@rapier.smartspace.co.za> In-Reply-To: <4294801715.983547345@[192.168.99.123]>; from chad@pengar.com on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:35:45PM -0500 References: <F42NXRPmcarcR4ZDgC8000039e4@hotmail.com> <4294801715.983547345@[192.168.99.123]>
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On Fri 2001-03-02 (15:35), Chad Leigh, Pengar Enterprises, Inc & Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > > --On Friday, March 02, 2001 1:36 PM -0700 Charles Burns > <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > 2) How on earth do I get rid of Sendmail? Whenever I delete sendmail, it > > breaks build world. Furthermore, why is it installed by default? It seems > > to be deeply imbedded in FreeBSD. I would think that, if anything, > > FreeBSD would install Qmail but I would really greatly prefer if I had > > the option of not installing any MTA. I have tried disabling sendmail in > > rc.conf. > > > My experience has been such: I use "exim" (www.exim.org) for an mta. I > move the sendmail in its original location to sendmail.orig and put a soft > link to my exim executable. I have not had trouble building world though I > don't do it much. I do have to redo my link after a build world. If I put > a NO in the sendmail in rc.conf I do not get any sendmail daemon running. These days you're moving "mailwrapper", not sendmail. Using mailwrapper is the supported and preferred way to support other MTA's on FreeBSD. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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