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Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 15:43:36 +0000
To: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: PR 37395 - even with NO_SENDMAIL=true, /usr/sbin/sendmail
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At 07:28 04/12/2002 -0800, Michael Sierchio wrote:
>What's the deal with this?  This puppy broke a couple of my
>machines by overwriting /var/qmail/bin/sendmail via the
>symlink in /usr/sbin.  Ack. Pppt.

   I think you're looking for mailwrapper(8) and possibly the 
NO_MAILWRAPPER option.

>There should be a single switch to disable sendwhale.

   There is.

>I'll reiterate that the make.conf switches are no substitute
>for packagizing the ever-more-bloated "base" system.

   Go ahead and submit your patches.  I think most people agree that a 
packagized base system would be a Good Thing, but nobody has actually 
gotten around to doing it yet.

Colin Percival



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