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Date:      Wed, 4 Sep 2002 21:03:54 -0400
From:      Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Removing sendmail
Message-ID:  <20020905010354.GC63654@wjv.com>
In-Reply-To: <bulk.53168.20020904142030@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <bulk.53168.20020904142030@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 14:20 , Men gasped, women fainted, and small 
children were reduced to tears as stable-digest confessed to all:

> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:00:52 -0700
> From: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Subject: Re: Removing sendmail
> 
> >> This will of course break your system.. No more periodic reports
> >> (daily security reports), no more cron mail, no more user mail, etc.

> haering_linux> Not if you install a different MTA like Postfix instead.

> He was removing /usr/bin/mail and mailx.  

That really would would break things wouldn't it.

Why is it that so often people just start wholesale deleting things
without checking appropriate places.

apropos mail   should point out to the observant eye several things
to check and reach the desired results without breaking things.

Reading docs pointed out /usr/sbin/sendmail is a link to
/usr/sbin/mailwrapper. The /etc/mail/mailer.conf describes how to
use this so that you tell the systemexactly what programs to run
when you call sendmail. Take a look at that and it should fix the
problems.  IOW using the name 'sendmail' can invoke other programs
instead of the real sendmail.

On top of that if you really don't want sendmail at all, then
in /etc/make.conf  put in the NO_SENDMAIL=NO directive. 

Man make.conf will clue you in on that.   The system really is
quite configurable with the tools built in without having to rip
out directories wholesale and then wonder what you have to put back
to make it work again.

Use the docs Luke.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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