sendmail disabled, but 'service -e' lists it as enabled

[Jonathan McKeown]

On Wednesday 25 April 2012 20:56:22 Greg Larkin wrote:
> On 4/25/12 2:09 PM, rank1seeker at gmail.com wrote:
> > # grep sendmail /etc/rc.conf sendmail_enable="NONE" # service -e |
> > grep sendmail /etc/rc.d/sendmail # ps -U root | grep sendmail
>
> /etc/rc.d/sendmail explicitly sets some variables to "NO" when
> sendmail_enable is "NONE".  Unfortunately, the service script does not
> take that into account, so if you want it to report correctly, place
> these lines in /etc/rc.conf:
>
> sendmail_enable="NONE"
> sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
> sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
> sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"

And in fact man 8 rc.sendmail says (under sendmail_enable in the RC.CONF 
VARIABLES section):

The ``NONE'' option is deprecated and should not be used.  It will be removed 
in a future release.

and later in the manpage:

To completely prevent any sendmail(8) daemons from starting, you must set the 
following variables in /etc/rc.conf:

           sendmail_enable="NO"
           sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
           sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
           sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"

Jonathan