Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

[Joe Altman]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:31:37PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:17:57 -0500, Joe Altman <fj at panix.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:31:40AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote:
> > > > "comm/JT" <comm at rwx.ca> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to
> > > > > fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and
> > > > > seemed to have failed, just wondering if I am using an old and outdated
> > > > > document.
> > <snip>
> > >
> > > Although this is deprecated.  Please use the following rather
> > > than sendmail_enable="NONE":
> > >
> > > sendmail_enable="NO"
> > > sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
> > > sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
> > > sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
> > 
> > Where do you see this:
> > 
> > sendmail_enable="NONE" labelled as deprecated? That doesn't appear to
> > be the case, in the documentation I have accessed.
> 
> I 'see this' in man rc.sendmail(8):
> 
> sendmail_enable
>     (str) If set to ``YES'', run the sendmail(8) daemon at system
>     boot time.  If set to ``NO'', do not run a sendmail(8) daemon to
>     listen for incoming network mail.	This does not preclude a
>     sendmail(8) daemon listening on the SMTP port of the loopback
>     interface.  The ``NONE'' option is deprecated and should not be
>     used.  It will be removed in a future release.

You mean this man rc.sendmail?


RC.SENDMAIL(8)          FreeBSD System Manager's Manual

NAME
     rc.sendmail -- sendmail(8) startup script

DESCRIPTION
     The rc.sendmail script is used by /etc/rc at boot time to start
     sendmail(8).  It is meant to be sendmail(8) specific and not a
     generic script for all MTAs.

Contrast with the handbook entry, for changing the MTA for a given
machine:

22.4 Changing Your Mail Transfer Agent
22.4.4 Replacing sendmail as the System's Default Mailer

Which addresses the OPs original request, I think: "...some
documentation to fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine."

I don't interpret the NONE directive as deprecated, for the
mailer.conf wrapper, which is what should be used to "...fully
move..." from sendmail to Exim, AFAICT.

man mailer.conf and man mailwrapper.