From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 2 13:27:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rapier.smartspace.co.za (rapier.smartspace.co.za [66.8.25.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3CD237B719 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 13:27:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@rapier.smartspace.co.za) Received: (qmail 5717 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Mar 2001 21:26:49 -0000 Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 23:26:49 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: "Chad Leigh, Pengar Enterprises, Inc & Shire.Net LLC" Cc: Charles Burns , 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> References: <4294801715.983547345@[192.168.99.123]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4294801715.983547345@[192.168.99.123]>; from chad@pengar.com on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:35:45PM -0500 Organization: Building Intelligence X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > 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