From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 12 05:02:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A84116A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 05:02:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [66.111.41.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 018BE43D2D for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 05:02:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 86AC4771; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 05:02:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 856506AA; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 05:02:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 05:02:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: David Magda In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040412045954.M6723-100000@moo.sysabend.org> X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: Joe Halpin Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD without sendmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:02:07 -0000 On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, David Magda wrote: > On Apr 10, 2004, at 16:06, Joe Halpin wrote: > > Is it possible to install FreeBSD without sendmail? My machines are > > behind a NAT firewall and don't > No. A mailer is needed for various system functions (e.g., mailing of > cron results) and sendmail is currently the default one (though you can > install others from Ports). > > have a domain name. Every time I install I have to wait for sendmail > > to timeout looking for its domain name. > Look in /etc/defaults/rc.conf for settings on sendmail(8). If you want > to completely disable it set the following in /etc/rc.conf: > sendmail_enable="NONE" On this note, sysinstall still puts 'sendmail_enable="NO"' in rc.conf if you tell it not to start any MTA as of 5.2.1-RELEASE, which isn't sufficient to stop sendmail from starting at boot time. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen