From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 6 15:52:31 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 BA55837B401 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 15:52:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.au.darkbluesea.com (mail.au.darkbluesea.com [203.185.208.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DD3A43EC5 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 15:52:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com) Received: (qmail 49822 invoked by uid 82); 6 Jan 2003 23:48:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.188?) (10.0.0.188) by bandit.au.darkbluesea.com with SMTP; 6 Jan 2003 23:48:35 -0000 Subject: Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail From: Duncan Anker To: FreeBSD Questions , Daniel Goepp Cc: Lowell Gilbert In-Reply-To: <447kdiz6f1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <20030105134445.H96646-100000@dean.goepp.net> <447kdiz6f1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Dark Blue Sea Message-Id: <1041897164.11871.21.camel@duncan.au.darkbluesea.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 07 Jan 2003 09:52:44 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 00:42, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > 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. um ... what's wrong with doing this in /etc/make.conf? NO_BIND = true NO_OPENSSL = true NO_SENDMAIL = true and so on. Seems to be exactly what you want to do -- The information contained in this email is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not disclose or use the information in this email in any way. Dark Blue Sea does not guarantee the integrity of any emails or attached files. The views or opinions expressed are the author's own and may not reflect the views or opinions of Dark Blue Sea. Dark Blue Sea does not warrant that any attachments are free from viruses or other defects. You assume all liability for any loss, damage or other consequences which may arise from opening or using the attachments. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message