conf/57207: sendmail_enable in rc.conf wrong values

[Chris Stenton]

The following reply was made to PR conf/57207; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Chris Stenton <jacs at gnome.co.uk>
To: Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net>
Cc: Chris Stenton <jacs at gnome.co.uk>, bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/57207: sendmail_enable in rc.conf wrong values
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:26:14 +0100

 Thanks for that. Its not obvious from the config file that that is the
 case.
 
 The reason for disabling sendmail is that the mailscanner port starts
 its own daemon and then two sendmail queues.
 
 Chris
 
 
 On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 11:59, Peter Pentchev wrote:
 > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:22:56AM +0100, Chris Stenton wrote:
 > > 
 > > >Number:         57207
 > > >Category:       conf
 > > >Synopsis:       sendmail_enable in rc.conf wrong values
 > > >Originator:     Chris Stenton
 > > >Release:        FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p6 i386
 > > >Environment:
 > > System: FreeBSD hawk.gnome.co.uk 5.1-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p6 #2: Wed Sep 24 12:17:20 BST 2003 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GNOME i386
 > > 	
 > > >Description:
 > 
 > > sendmail_enable in rc.conf is documented as YES/NO but
 > > rc.sendmail expects NONE/YES
 > 
 > Actually, I do not think this is strictly true.  While
 > sendmail_enable="NONE" does indeed stop *all* Sendmail-related services
 > from starting, sendmail_enable="NO" is a valid and useful setting - it
 > disables the part of Sendmail that listens for incoming SMTP
 > connections, while still allowing the administrator to run other
 > Sendmail services, controlled by the sendmail_outbound_enable and
 > sendmail_submit_enable knobs.  This is particularly useful for a home
 > machine with no local mailserver, no local mailboxes, but still a need
 > to route outgoing e-mail: the Sendmail submit service can accept
 > messages and relay them to e.g. the ISP's mail server for actual
 > delivery.
 > 
 > By the way, if getting rid of Sendmail is your goal, then
 > sendmail_enable="NONE", while working, is not the best solution.
 > sendmail_enable, like the other sendmail_* knobs, is an rc.sendmail
 > setting, and you can easily disable even loading rc.sendmail by setting
 > the mta_startup_script knob to an empty string ("").
 > 
 > G'luck,
 > Peter