Removing Sendmail

[Peter Schultz]

John Baldwin wrote:
> On 02-Apr-2003 Peter Schultz wrote:
> 
>>I'm sorry for beating a dead horse.  A guy and I from tcbug were just 
>>trying to fix his postfix installation, he does not know what happened, 
>>it just stopped working.  There would not have been a problem if 
>>sendmail wasn't tied into the system so closely.  I'm just hoping core 
>>will say, "submit a working solution and it will be done," so that 
>>there's a little inspiration here.
>>
>>Pete...
> 
> 
> First, core@ is not the appropriate body for that type of request.
 > Both current@ and arch@ are much better targets.

I understand, thanks for clarifying.

> Second, is NO_SENDMAIL + the postfix port inadequate?
> 

I guess.  I was helping him on #tcbug this morning, and he certainly 
missed something somewhere between the two.  He claimed it "just stopped 
working."  I don't know what all he did, but he was sure going crazy 
trying to fix it.  I helped him get around the problem, but I couldn't 
help but think it would be nice for FreeBSD administrators to have a 
smoother solution.

How about requiring a decision at install time, during the final 
configuration:

[x] sendmail ... (default)
[ ] postfix ...
[ ] exim ...
[ ] qmail ...
[ ] none (caution: desktop users only, insecure use of syslog)

Pete...