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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 21:16:46 -0700
From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>
Cc: Dominic Mitchell <hdm@mistral.co.uk>, Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com>,
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Subject: Re: sendmail 8.11.0
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 02:03:57PM -0600, Chris Fedde wrote:
> 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 ;-)

But that will only affect the MTA listening for relays. It will not
change what executable a program trying to send mail on the local
machine will exec to send mail... Unless now everything that sends
mail has to source rc.conf first. Yuck.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.com


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