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On June 12, 2007 at 04:41PM Charlie McElfresh wrote:


> I have sendmail disabled in rc.conf, but it starts up anyway.  Any hints
> what might be starting it up?
>=20
> I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE.

=46rom the following page:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-changingmta.=
html


26.4.2.3 FreeBSD 5.0-STABLE and Later
In order to completely disable sendmail, including the outgoing mail servic=
e, you must use

sendmail_enable=3D"NO"
sendmail_submit_enable=3D"NO"
sendmail_outbound_enable=3D"NO"
sendmail_msp_queue_enable=3D"NO"
in /etc/rc.conf.

If you only want to disable sendmail's incoming mail service, you should se=
t

sendmail_enable=3D"NO"

--=20
Gerard