Getting "rid" of sendmail

[Ed Budd]

I think what you want is:

sendmail_enable="NO"

"NONE" removes all mail sending ability on the local machine - not what
you want if I interpret your post correctly...



On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 07:59:38 -0700
Emmanuel Gravel <mailinglistseg at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I'm looking for a way to entirely remove an MTA from a box and forward
> everything to another host. I've found the /etc/mail/aliases file and
> saw that I could configure it so that root would point to something
> else, so that's half the battle, possibly. Once that's done, however,
> is it simply a matter of setting sendmail_enable="NONE" in
> /etc/rc.conf to disable sendmail, or is there more I could/should do,
> to still keep having the cron job outputs sent to the place I'd
> specify in/etc/mail/aliases?
> 
> I mostly don't want the daemon running, but still want access to my
> email.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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