From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 28 8:42:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from horsey.gshapiro.net (horsey.gshapiro.net [209.220.147.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF0B37B41C for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:42:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from horsey.gshapiro.net (gshapiro@localhost [IPv6:::1]) by horsey.gshapiro.net (8.12.3.Beta2/8.12.3.Beta2) with ESMTP id g2SGftGd043425 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:41:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gshapiro@localhost) by horsey.gshapiro.net (8.12.3.Beta2/8.12.3.Beta2/Submit) id g2SGfslY043422; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:41:54 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15523.18386.630996.80628@horsey.gshapiro.net> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:41:54 -0800 From: Gregory Neil Shapiro To: thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another possible solution for non-sendmail users In-Reply-To: <20020328173013.A57830@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> References: <15523.14636.146301.834847@horsey.gshapiro.net> <20020328173013.A57830@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.00 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG thomas> Hum. If we make the assumption that non-Sendmail-users use some thomas> other MTA installed through a port or locally, then I guess that thomas> MTA should be expected to be started from a /usr/local/etc/rc.d script, thomas> so maybe the new variable mta_startup_script is overkill. They can set mta_start_script to "" (or unset it) in /etc/rc.conf. Also, if it's not present (due to NO_SENDMAIL), it will be ignored automatically. The benefit of this new method is it is "sendmail-clean" and allows for future MTAs (whether through new packaging or via the ports) to have a hook. thomas> One thing or the other, it would be nice to have that coordinated thomas> with the maintainers of the various MTA ports: Once things settle down, I'll get in contact with them (and Warner and Bruce). Hopefully at least some of them are seeing this discussion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message