Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 14:03:57 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Dominic Mitchell <hdm@mistral.co.uk> Cc: Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail 8.11.0 Message-ID: <200008012003.e71K3wd41491@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <20000801155735.B97403@bizboz.mistral.co.uk>
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On Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:57:35 +0100 Dominic Mitchell wrote:
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| On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:38:56AM -0600, Chris Fedde wrote:
| > I find
| > the whole mailwrapper thing bizarre in the extreem. It is similar
| > to the whole /usr/local/etc/rc.d scheme where we are adding a
| > layer of indirection when there is no need for one.
|
| On the contrary - I find it a complete godsend. It makes replacing the
| standard sendmail with a port/package and absolute breeze. It's far
| nicer than having each port hack around in /usr/sbin for no good reason.
|
| -Dom
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My point is that there is a perfectly good mechinism in existance to allow
switching between MTA. The rc.conf mechinism works well and is consistant
for all other components of the system. In this one case we add a layer of
indirection below rc.conf.
Why not simply use something like
mta_enable="YES"
mta=/usr/sbin/sendmail
or
mta_ena
mta=/usr/sbin/qmail
and the appropriate frag in /etc/rc to work with this
I find the whole mailwrapper thing bizarre in the extreem ;-)
chris
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