From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 2 17:16:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from evil.2y.net (ztown1-3-26.adsl.one.net [216.23.21.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E2237B9F7 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 17:16:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cokane@evil.2y.net) Received: (from cokane@localhost) by evil.2y.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA06569; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 20:20:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cokane) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 20:20:35 -0400 From: Coleman Kane To: Dominic Mitchell Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Chris Fedde , Holtor , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail 8.11.0 Message-ID: <20000802202035.A6550@cokane.yi.org> References: <20000801155735.B97403@bizboz.mistral.co.uk> <200008012003.e71K3wd41491@fedde.littleton.co.us> <20000801211646.A50818@184.215.6.64.reflexcom.com> <20000802094230.A99818@bizboz.mistral.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000802094230.A99818@bizboz.mistral.co.uk>; from hdm@mistral.co.uk on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 04:43:59AM -0400 X-Vim: vim:tw=70:ts=4:sw=4 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For example, the qmail package also creates a sendmail binary. Dominic Mitchell had the audacity to say: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:16:46PM -0700, Crist J . Clark wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 02:03:57PM -0600, Chris Fedde wrote: > > > My point is that there is a perfectly good mechinism in existance to allow > > > switching between MTA. The rc.conf mechinism works well and is consistant > > > for all other components of the system. In this one case we add a layer of > > > indirection below rc.conf. > > > Why not simply use something like > > > > > > mta_enable="YES" > > > mta=/usr/sbin/sendmail > > > or > > > mta_ena > > > mta=/usr/sbin/qmail > > > > > > and the appropriate frag in /etc/rc to work with this > > > I find the whole mailwrapper thing bizarre in the extreem ;-) > > > > But that will only affect the MTA listening for relays. It will not > > change what executable a program trying to send mail on the local > > machine will exec to send mail... Unless now everything that sends > > mail has to source rc.conf first. Yuck. > > Precisely. Like it or not, /usr/sbin/sendmail has become an interface > to sending mail and is *not* exclusive to sendmail. > > -Dom (Paid up member of the Sendmail Must Die club) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message