From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 19 13:35:28 2002 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 4F41637B400 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:35:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrew.brobus.net (ns1.brobus.net [24.129.14.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6906343E42 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:35:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tamir@brobus.net) Subject: zero sendmail Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:37:21 -0400 Message-ID: <985DF46E87E0C047A3670048DBCAD055086903@andrew.brobus.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: content-class: urn:content-classes:message Thread-Topic: zero sendmail X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Thread-Index: AcJHwDedGwhyQWhbRy6zcIY4W20uIw== From: "Tamir Halperin" To: 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 There are many conversations about how to deal with sendmail in freebsd. = I would love a definitive answer to how sendmail can be entirely removed = from the system. Even not electing it as part of the system during = configuration and installation still causes it to show up and, if I'm = not mistaken, show up configured and running. The scenario I'm looking = for is a set of steps to actually "remove" it from the system once the = system is finally installed and configured. There have also been some conversations about sendmail being UNIX's = default MTA and other MTA's being configured around sendmail's = configuration and commands for running it. As someone new to UNIX, this = sounds like an issue that should probably be addressed IMHO. I'm not = complaining about this but it does seem to sound as though FreeBSD and = other Unices are almost prefering sendmail over others. Is it the case = that UNIX doesn't run properly without an installed and configured MTA? = Again, I'm asking because I don't know. My suggestion would be that FreeBSD have a standards-based facility for = handling MTA functionality that an installer can configure or elect not = to configure at the time of installation. Often times, a decision about = which MTA to use requires quite a bit more deliberation than can be = demanded of the OS installation procedure. The choice should be given to = delay until such time as the deliberating parties can attend to the = decisioning process. What say you? Tamir --- Valeris: "Why keep it in your quarters?" Spock: "It is a reminder to me that all things end." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message