Removing Sendmail

Mike Makonnen mtm at identd.net
Thu Apr 3 15:43:54 PST 2003


On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 17:08:46 -0500 (EST)
John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 
> On 03-Apr-2003 Dr Daniel Flickinger wrote:
> >     Secondly, I add the following to /etc/rc.conf:
> > 
> >       mta_start_script=""      # 2917: block their startup stealth attack
> >       sendmail_enable="NO"
> >       sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
> >       sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
> >       sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
> 
> sendmail_enable="NONE" should be all you need for rc.conf.  Note
> "NONE" rather than "NO".

This is deprecated. It's a non-standard option that complicates rc.conf
handling.

Cheers
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