Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:37:22 -0400 From: David Magda <dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca> To: Joe Halpin <joe.halpin@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD without sendmail Message-ID: <DE491CE5-8B2E-11D8-B65B-000A95B96FF8@ee.ryerson.ca> In-Reply-To: <407853DA.2090706@comcast.net> References: <407853DA.2090706@comcast.net>
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On Apr 10, 2004, at 16:06, Joe Halpin wrote: > Is it possible to install FreeBSD without sendmail? My machines are > behind a NAT firewall and don't No. A mailer is needed for various system functions (e.g., mailing of cron results) and sendmail is currently the default one (though you can install others from Ports). > have a domain name. Every time I install I have to wait for sendmail > to timeout looking for its domain name. Look in /etc/defaults/rc.conf for settings on sendmail(8). If you want to completely disable it set the following in /etc/rc.conf: sendmail_enable="NONE" See rc.conf(5) and rc.sendmail(5) for details.
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