Kill Sendmail

[Senandung Mendonan]

On Tue, 11 May 2004, Jason Dusek wrote:

> How do I kill sendmail? I set 'sendmail_enable="no"' in /etc/rc.conf but
> when I reboot the mail daemon is still up.

It's a sendmail thing, since sendmail-8.12. See:-

http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.44

The feature soon creeped into FreeBSD as it was imported. From
/usr/src/UPDATING:-

"20020404:
        New sendmail startup scripts have been installed to make it
        easier to use alternative MTAs with FreeBSD.  Setting the rc.conf
        variable sendmail_enable to "NO" no longer prevents any sendmail
        daemons from starting.  Instead, either set sendmail_enable to
        "NONE" or change mta_start_script to a script for starting
        an alternative MTA.  Setting mta_start_script to "" will
        also prevent any MTA from being started at boot."

--mendonan
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