Mail and DNS setup

[Roland Smith]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 07:32:38PM -0400, Jerry wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:08:41 +0200
> Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> articulated:
> 
> > > Also anything special I need to do to uninstall or get rid of
> > > sendmail on my system?  
> > 
> > Put the following in /etc/rc.conf;
> > 
> >     sendmail_enable="NONE"
> 
> Are you sure about that?

Yes. :-)

> From:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-changingmta.html
> In order to completely disable sendmail, including the outgoing mail
> service, you must use
> 
> sendmail_enable="NO"
> sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
> sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
> sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
> 
> in /etc/rc.conf.
> </quote>

From /etc/rc.d/sendmail:

    case ${sendmail_enable} in
    [Nn][Oo][Nn][Ee])
        sendmail_enable="NO"
        sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
        sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
        sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
        ;;
    esac

I guess the handbook needs updating.

Roland
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