Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:42:30 +0100 From: Dominic Mitchell <hdm@mistral.co.uk> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>, Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail 8.11.0 Message-ID: <20000802094230.A99818@bizboz.mistral.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000801211646.A50818@184.215.6.64.reflexcom.com>; from cjclark@reflexnet.net on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:16:46PM -0700 References: <20000801155735.B97403@bizboz.mistral.co.uk> <200008012003.e71K3wd41491@fedde.littleton.co.us> <20000801211646.A50818@184.215.6.64.reflexcom.com>
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:16:46PM -0700, Crist J . Clark wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 02:03:57PM -0600, Chris Fedde wrote: > > 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 ;-) > > But that will only affect the MTA listening for relays. It will not > change what executable a program trying to send mail on the local > machine will exec to send mail... Unless now everything that sends > mail has to source rc.conf first. Yuck. Precisely. Like it or not, /usr/sbin/sendmail has become an interface to sending mail and is *not* exclusive to sendmail. -Dom (Paid up member of the Sendmail Must Die club) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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