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How can I get rid of sendmail?
In rc.conf I set sendmail_enable="NONE" but it always tries to start and
prints messages to the console about unqualified domain names.

TIA
Johannes

Try sendmail_enable="NO" :-)

Johannes Totz maltr?tierte seine Tastatur mit:

Quote:> How can I get rid of sendmail?

grep sendmail /etc/defaults/rc.conf | grep YES | \
sed "s/YES/NO/g" >> /etc/rc.conf

Stefan
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Ich maltr?tierte meine Tastatur mit:

Quote:>> How can I get rid of sendmail?

> grep sendmail /etc/defaults/rc.conf | grep YES | \
> sed "s/YES/NO/g" >> /etc/rc.conf

Ahem, sorry...at least if you don't care about the comments. And the
second grep is obsolete.

Stefan
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No reading beyond this point

Ich maltr?tierte meine Tastatur mit:

Quote:>> How can I get rid of sendmail?

> grep sendmail /etc/defaults/rc.conf | grep YES | \
> sed "s/YES/NO/g" >> /etc/rc.conf

Ahem, sorry...make that
grep sendmail /etc/defaults/rc.conf | sed "s/YES/NO/"

Stefan
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No reading beyond this point

put this in your rc.conf and stop sendmail dead in its tracks.
mta_start_script=""

Hello!

What version of FreeBSD are You running?  I.e. do You already have
/etc/rc and /etc/rc.sendmail scripts that check for mta_start_script or
sendmail_enable?

If You have these, then what You did --- setting /etc/rc.conf
sendmail_enable="NONE" --- must do the job.  In addition
mta_start_script="" (as proposed before in this thread) must also do
what You want.

Regards, Robert S.

P.S.:  Perhaps You should reconsider disabling Your MTA completely,
maybe sendmail_enable="NO" would be better, depending on what You really
want to achieve.
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Thanks all!

mta_start_script="" and sendmail_enable="NONE" did the trick.

Johannes

Quote:> Try sendmail_enable="NO" :-)

AFAIK "NONE" is for 4.6 and "NO" is for freebsd 4.5 and below. Am I right ?

I  think you are right. In 4.6 sendmail is no more suid to root. Hence
two copies of sendmail are running, the one listening on port 25 being
non privileged. There are two mail queues, two config files and so on.
If you put sendmail=NO the copy listening on external world does not run
but the copy listening on localhost still runs to deliver local mail,
such as produced by the security scripts. With NONE, sendmail does not
run at all, and this is the strange thing since the previous poster claimed
to have sendmail running in this case. In any case sendmail=NONE should be
used only if another MTA like postfix is running, otherwise local mail
will have problem. In fact with postfix there are several programs, one
listens on port 25 and can be disabled, the other does address rewriting,
etc. Hence it is very easy to tailor postfix to particular needs, and to
have non suid programs, while for sendmail they have to run 2 copies.
Personnally i have encountered problems running sendmail via uucp in the
new setting, and have been obliged to return to old setting. Perhaps
this is because i have not understood the correct config of the mail
submission agent in this case.

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Michel Talon

Quote:> With NONE, sendmail
> does not run at all, and this is the strange thing since the previous
> poster claimed to have sendmail running in this case.

Yes, it always tried to start up. I'm using FreeBSD 4.6 and this box is
just a firewall with natd. There's no need to run sendmail and I wondered
how it can be started despite I disbled it.

Now, mta_start_script="" and sendmail_enable="NONE" disabled it completely
(at least I hope).

Johannes