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Date:      Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:48:05 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mail and DNS setup
Message-ID:  <20100819234805.GA41425@slackbox.erewhon.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100819193238.379ede30@scorpio>
References:  <4C6DB3DE.6080209@gmail.com> <20100819230841.GA40184@slackbox.erewhon.net> <20100819193238.379ede30@scorpio>

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On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 07:32:38PM -0400, Jerry wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:08:41 +0200
> Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> articulated:
>=20
> > > Also anything special I need to do to uninstall or get rid of
> > > sendmail on my system? =20
> >=20
> > Put the following in /etc/rc.conf;
> >=20
> >     sendmail_enable=3D"NONE"
>=20
> Are you sure about that?

Yes. :-)

> From:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-changingmt=
a.html
> In order to completely disable sendmail, including the outgoing mail
> service, you must use
>=20
> sendmail_enable=3D"NO"
> sendmail_submit_enable=3D"NO"
> sendmail_outbound_enable=3D"NO"
> sendmail_msp_queue_enable=3D"NO"
>=20
> in /etc/rc.conf.
> </quote>

=46rom /etc/rc.d/sendmail:

    case ${sendmail_enable} in
    [Nn][Oo][Nn][Ee])
        sendmail_enable=3D"NO"
        sendmail_submit_enable=3D"NO"
        sendmail_outbound_enable=3D"NO"
        sendmail_msp_queue_enable=3D"NO"
        ;;
    esac

I guess the handbook needs updating.

Roland
--=20
R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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