sendmail_enable="NO"

[Daniel Eischen]

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Doug Barton wrote:

> First, rc.conf and periodic.conf are totally separate, so having just one
> knob for both isn't practical now, but might be an interesting project down
> the road. Second, IIRC the first implementation of sendmail_enable=no did
> actually disable all of sendmail, but since people could not send mail
> locally that turned out to be a POLA violation itself, so the current
> two-stage system was developed. It's impossible to make everyone happy here,
> so I think the current system is a reasonable compromise.

No, you can still have *one* overriding knob to turn off
everything.  If folks want to enable/disable different
parts of sendmail, they can do that with the other knobs.
POLA says the one overriding sendmail knob should be
sendmail_enable.

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DE