From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 7 5:15:29 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B51BD37B401 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 05:15:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6A7143F93 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 05:15:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dsyphers@uchicago.edu) Received: from adsl-68-20-37-92.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net (adsl-68-20-37-92.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [68.20.37.92]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h17DFKNZ023621; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 07:15:21 -0600 (CST) From: David Syphers To: Kevin Stevens Subject: Re: disabling sendmail in 5.0 Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 07:15:21 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302070715.21632.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 06 February 2003 09:11 pm, Kevin Stevens wrote: > On Thursday, Feb 6, 2003, at 19:05 US/Pacific, David Syphers wrote: > >>> sendmail_enable="NO" > >> > >> make this NONE > > > > Unfortunately, this is only valid in 4-stable. It was deprecated in > > HEAD > > September 3, 2002. I was hoping that the sendmail_submit_enable and > > sendmail_outbound_enable switches (which I think are new) would have > > the same > > overall effect as NONE did in -stable. > > Thank god. I wasn't around at the time, but whoever thought it was a > good idea to take a *universally* understood binary choice like yes/no > and add alternatives to it - well, hopefully they've had time to > appreciate the zillions of posts by confused admins. There was a long and heated debate around enabling sendmail when the idea of making the option tri-state came out as a reasonable compromise. Yes, it might have caused some confusion, but then again, so did the fact that sendmail_enable="NO" did _not_ turn off sendmail... But for better or worse it's gone now, apparently because it was incompatible with rcNG. -David -- "Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy." -P. J. O'Rourke Astronomy and Astrophysics Center The University of Chicago To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message