Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 05:02:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: David Magda <dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca> Cc: Joe Halpin <joe.halpin@comcast.net> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD without sendmail Message-ID: <20040412045954.M6723-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <DE491CE5-8B2E-11D8-B65B-000A95B96FF8@ee.ryerson.ca>
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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 <alaric@alaric.org.uk>
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