Mail and DNS setup

[Jerry]

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? From:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-changingmta.html

<quote>
28.4.2 Disable sendmail

Warning: If you disable sendmail's outgoing mail service, it is
important that you replace it with an alternative mail delivery system.
If you choose not to, system functions such as periodic(8) will be
unable to deliver their results by e-mail as they would normally expect
to. Many parts of your system may expect to have a functional
sendmail-compatible system. If applications continue to use sendmail's
binaries to try to send e-mail after you have disabled them, mail could
go into an inactive sendmail queue, and never be delivered.

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>

-- 
Jerry ✌
FreeBSD.user at seibercom.net

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