Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 07:15:21 -0600 From: David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu> To: Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disabling sendmail in 5.0 Message-ID: <200302070715.21632.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <EA6FF33B-3A49-11D7-9327-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net> References: <EA6FF33B-3A49-11D7-9327-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net>
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On Thursday 06 February 2003 09:11 pm, Kevin Stevens wrote: > On Thursday, Feb 6, 2003, at 19:05 US/Pacific, David Syphers wrote: > >>> sendmail_enable="NO" > >> > >> make this NONE > > > > Unfortunately, this is only valid in 4-stable. It was deprecated in > > HEAD > > September 3, 2002. I was hoping that the sendmail_submit_enable and > > sendmail_outbound_enable switches (which I think are new) would have > > the same > > overall effect as NONE did in -stable. > > Thank god. I wasn't around at the time, but whoever thought it was a > good idea to take a *universally* understood binary choice like yes/no > and add alternatives to it - well, hopefully they've had time to > appreciate the zillions of posts by confused admins. There was a long and heated debate around enabling sendmail when the idea of making the option tri-state came out as a reasonable compromise. Yes, it might have caused some confusion, but then again, so did the fact that sendmail_enable="NO" did _not_ turn off sendmail... But for better or worse it's gone now, apparently because it was incompatible with rcNG. -David -- "Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy." -P. J. O'Rourke Astronomy and Astrophysics Center The University of Chicago To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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