Installing FreeBSD without sendmail

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Joe Halpin wrote:

> 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


Try setting NO_SENDMAIL="TRUE" in /etc/make.conf ??

Kevin Kinsey