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From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
Subject: Re: conf/57207: sendmail_enable in rc.conf wrong values
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The following reply was made to PR conf/57207; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To: Chris Stenton <jacs@gnome.co.uk>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/57207: sendmail_enable in rc.conf wrong values
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:59:57 +0300

 On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:22:56AM +0100, Chris Stenton wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         57207
 > >Category:       conf
 > >Synopsis:       sendmail_enable in rc.conf wrong values
 > >Originator:     Chris Stenton
 > >Release:        FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p6 i386
 > >Environment:
 > System: FreeBSD hawk.gnome.co.uk 5.1-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p6 #2: Wed Sep 24 12:17:20 BST 2003 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GNOME i386
 > 	
 > >Description:
 
 > sendmail_enable in rc.conf is documented as YES/NO but
 > rc.sendmail expects NONE/YES
 
 Actually, I do not think this is strictly true.  While
 sendmail_enable="NONE" does indeed stop *all* Sendmail-related services
 from starting, sendmail_enable="NO" is a valid and useful setting - it
 disables the part of Sendmail that listens for incoming SMTP
 connections, while still allowing the administrator to run other
 Sendmail services, controlled by the sendmail_outbound_enable and
 sendmail_submit_enable knobs.  This is particularly useful for a home
 machine with no local mailserver, no local mailboxes, but still a need
 to route outgoing e-mail: the Sendmail submit service can accept
 messages and relay them to e.g. the ISP's mail server for actual
 delivery.
 
 By the way, if getting rid of Sendmail is your goal, then
 sendmail_enable="NONE", while working, is not the best solution.
 sendmail_enable, like the other sendmail_* knobs, is an rc.sendmail
 setting, and you can easily disable even loading rc.sendmail by setting
 the mta_startup_script knob to an empty string ("").
 
 G'luck,
 Peter
 
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