From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 6 6:42:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 130E937B401 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 06:42:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C0F943EC5 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 06:42:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with ESMTP id <2003010614421500300lbfq3e>; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 14:42:15 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h06EgEXt000363; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 09:42:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h06EgA2K000360; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 09:42:10 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: Daniel Goepp Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail References: <20030105134445.H96646-100000@dean.goepp.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 06 Jan 2003 09:42:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20030105134445.H96646-100000@dean.goepp.net> Message-ID: <447kdiz6f1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel Goepp writes: > So mx1.freebsd.org itself runs Postfix, but yet, sendmail is still so > embedded in FreeBSD that it's almost imposible to get cleaned out. When > are they going to make the FreeBSD install configurable enough to not have > to include sendmail, bind, openssl, etc? I choose to either install these > apps as ports, or not at all. > > Is there a way to break down the install, and just get a bare bare bare > bones install of just base, crypto and man pages, like the install says > it's going to do? I can't imagine this would be too hard to do! Then do it. If it works, I doubt there will be much trouble getting it accepted into the system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message