Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:05:30 -0500 From: Joe Altman <fj@panix.com> To: Joshua Lokken <joshua.lokken@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3 Message-ID: <20041224190530.GA29788@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <bc5b638504122410313f0f4f7c@mail.gmail.com> References: <20041223224234.01432DD9A@cmlapp400.van.ca.siteprotect.com> <86wtv8m1da.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> <bc5b63850412240831663366e8@mail.gmail.com> <20041224181757.GB11861@panix.com> <bc5b638504122410313f0f4f7c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:31:37PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:17:57 -0500, Joe Altman <fj@panix.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:31:40AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote:
> > > > "comm/JT" <comm@rwx.ca> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to
> > > > > fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and
> > > > > seemed to have failed, just wondering if I am using an old and outdated
> > > > > document.
> > <snip>
> > >
> > > Although this is deprecated. Please use the following rather
> > > than sendmail_enable="NONE":
> > >
> > > sendmail_enable="NO"
> > > sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
> > > sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
> > > sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
> >
> > Where do you see this:
> >
> > sendmail_enable="NONE" labelled as deprecated? That doesn't appear to
> > be the case, in the documentation I have accessed.
>
> I 'see this' in man rc.sendmail(8):
>
> sendmail_enable
> (str) If set to ``YES'', run the sendmail(8) daemon at system
> boot time. If set to ``NO'', do not run a sendmail(8) daemon to
> listen for incoming network mail. This does not preclude a
> sendmail(8) daemon listening on the SMTP port of the loopback
> interface. The ``NONE'' option is deprecated and should not be
> used. It will be removed in a future release.
You mean this man rc.sendmail?
RC.SENDMAIL(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual
NAME
rc.sendmail -- sendmail(8) startup script
DESCRIPTION
The rc.sendmail script is used by /etc/rc at boot time to start
sendmail(8). It is meant to be sendmail(8) specific and not a
generic script for all MTAs.
Contrast with the handbook entry, for changing the MTA for a given
machine:
22.4 Changing Your Mail Transfer Agent
22.4.4 Replacing sendmail as the System's Default Mailer
Which addresses the OPs original request, I think: "...some
documentation to fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine."
I don't interpret the NONE directive as deprecated, for the
mailer.conf wrapper, which is what should be used to "...fully
move..." from sendmail to Exim, AFAICT.
man mailer.conf and man mailwrapper.
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