Installing FreeBSD without sendmail
Joe Halpin
j.p.h at comcast.net
Sat Apr 10 13:57:30 PDT 2004
David Magda wrote:
>
> On Apr 10, 2004, at 16:06, Joe Halpin wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to install FreeBSD without sendmail? My machines are
>> behind a NAT firewall and don't
>
> No. A mailer is needed for various system functions (e.g., mailing of
> cron results) and sendmail is currently the default one (though you can
> install others from Ports).
Sorry I guess I wasn't clear. I wasn't asking to not have it on the
system, only not running and accepting inbound connections.
>> have a domain name. Every time I install I have to wait for sendmail
>> to timeout looking for its domain name.
>
> Look in /etc/defaults/rc.conf for settings on sendmail(8). If you want
> to completely disable it set the following in /etc/rc.conf:
>
> sendmail_enable="NONE"
That's what I do every time I install. I was hoping there's some way to
configure it that way during the install.
Joe
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