Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 14:50:33 -0500 From: Matteo Riondato <matteo@freebsd.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: b7104f19147f - main - sendmail: document that sendmail_enable can be set to NONE Message-ID: <20221108195033.oa5gpgiadbdghkqa@ubertino.local> In-Reply-To: <7EE0DEE9-D72E-4F5E-9B71-A3FF1C62756D@FreeBSD.org> References: <0BC32C72-6996-49BB-AF50-CB3044D79687.ref@yahoo.com> <0BC32C72-6996-49BB-AF50-CB3044D79687@yahoo.com> <20221108191406.c7er3d6koulh5vom@ubertino.local> <7EE0DEE9-D72E-4F5E-9B71-A3FF1C62756D@FreeBSD.org>
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--2xle5jonhdncppvt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2022-11-08 at 14:17 EST, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> >>Indeed the issue that I intended to raise was that, AFAIK, there is no=20 >>documentation, for NONE, except if one reads and understands=20 >>/etc/rc.d/sendmail. It is something that is known by people "in the=20 >>know", and probably mentioned by a some online tutorials, but I don't=20 >>think there is anything "official". >> >>Even the handbook, in the section about changing MTA=20 >>(https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/mail/#mail-changingmta)=20 >>does not mention NONE, but explicitly sets the four variables to NO. >It is documented as deprecated in rc.sendmail(8) Sorry for missing this: this man page is not linked from sendmail(8),=20 nor from rc(8), nor mentioned in the script that it describes, although=20 it is linked from rc.conf(5) (and from no other manpage, as far as I can=20 tell). If NONE is deprecated, then perhaps it would have been better to set the=20 four variables to NO in the modifcation. Also, I wonder whether the value of "mta_start_script" in rc.conf should=20 be changed to reflect that the default MTA is no longer sendmail, and=20 also what the role of /etc/rc.d/othermta should be (and whether it=20 should be updated as well). Thanks, Matteo --2xle5jonhdncppvt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJHBAABCgAxFiEEa9uKZL0hP4E8Nl5vGwL9SVQlVQEFAmNqswkTGGhrcHM6Ly9w Z3AubWl0LmVkdQAKCRAbAv1JVCVVAUKuD/4mHNuVgiUtXe0J8gyhHYeK1SrtKSG4 jgYzylA4H0BUi+r+LXsNbInC4lEX6/atp4lz9BCCEgjGq2OZF3pimbdCKWhVGd/l VhB9t0iWz9OBjGZ3qechjN7GgMYmIyZin/q6MraPIz/iLNQS91N44OZjP4lKJHi8 MlhgG+XWxaBXOdyjOdthUt/m3608ZoLEzvGWOcH/QFlNajxooMR9kNkv0Wgd7Xnb oKNXNcnTae6Usipysn7Vx488dvGCBY7TaxveGgx5/b/yKKxfr3uVMduqvmyVbnah z57YQsA7vj9kIAaPnGSZ6qy2u8QQ1826TYInBb30nKec7Ktg2xCRu04Qkgwh0Zxn 813PaIZpqGLh7IVJcg8jwChAAZJEi71EjVndueRV2ept2uY2Clb2riNMjlLfSvVp T3QfR5KDe1B+rEb1ygIImv+xIZWqVmGWF1peVX6PfgAABIQ5TtGNr0CyIA9n4zKV XQSfF3fMMwOtH40aG8az5lpxv+fGHdGjtm9hh4lfL0P8+/4JQ6YCazAOY2D1aPGO ZWn3sAR5C7GMJLHLshJINDucg1L/4E7coQRucGAOE4oS2bQ19U9NJ4FsqqywAYkp hbyYsACEEe46uZ8wiZNeIL3cpfflenFKzR8Qw8pAB5686NKYmNmdc3DZFzYNMDR7 cZDsoTrFj2DJRw== =FvlP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2xle5jonhdncppvt--
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