From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 28 9:38:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A2C237B400; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:38:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:37:26 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 16qdnx-00027g-00; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:35:17 +0000 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:35:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Gregory Neil Shapiro Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable Subject: Re: Another possible solution for non-sendmail users In-Reply-To: <15523.14636.146301.834847@horsey.gshapiro.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: > Given that non-sendmail users will be inconvenienced when upgrading due to > the 8.12 changes (need to change sendmail_enable from "NO" to "NONE"), I > thought it might be better to give them something back for their trouble. > > As an alternative to sendmail_enable=NONE, why not solve the boot time > problem for non-sendmail users completely. Hang on, what problem? I think you've already done this: if you use sendmail_enable = "YES" sendmail_flags = "whatever you normally use" and configer /etc/mail/mailer.conf properly, then if your MTA was written to teh sendmail CLI, you're out of the woods, surely? -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk printf 'cat\nhello world' | `sh -c 'read c; echo $c'` To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message