From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 1 13: 4:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A16A337B609 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:04:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.0/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e71K3wd41491; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 14:03:58 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008012003.e71K3wd41491@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Dominic Mitchell Cc: Holtor , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail 8.11.0 In-Reply-To: <20000801155735.B97403@bizboz.mistral.co.uk> From: Chris Fedde Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 14:03:57 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:57:35 +0100 Dominic Mitchell wrote: +------------------ | On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:38:56AM -0600, Chris Fedde wrote: | > I find | > the whole mailwrapper thing bizarre in the extreem. It is similar | > to the whole /usr/local/etc/rc.d scheme where we are adding a | > layer of indirection when there is no need for one. | | On the contrary - I find it a complete godsend. It makes replacing the | standard sendmail with a port/package and absolute breeze. It's far | nicer than having each port hack around in /usr/sbin for no good reason. | | -Dom +------------------ My point is that there is a perfectly good mechinism in existance to allow switching between MTA. The rc.conf mechinism works well and is consistant for all other components of the system. In this one case we add a layer of indirection below rc.conf. Why not simply use something like mta_enable="YES" mta=/usr/sbin/sendmail or mta_ena mta=/usr/sbin/qmail and the appropriate frag in /etc/rc to work with this I find the whole mailwrapper thing bizarre in the extreem ;-) chris -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message