svn commit: r405234 - in head/mail/postfix: . files

[Adam Weinberger]

> On Jan 5, 2016, at 09:51, olli hauer <ohauer at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>> On 2016-01-05 17:11, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>> 
>>> On 4 Jan, 2016, at 3:33, Olli Hauer <ohauer at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Author: ohauer
>>> Date: Mon Jan  4 10:33:26 2016
>>> New Revision: 405234
>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/405234
>>> 
>>> Log:
>>> - rework pkg-install and pkg-message [1]
>>> 
>>> -If you not need sendmail anymore, please add in your rc.conf:
>>> -
>>> -sendmail_enable="NO"
>>> -sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
>>> -sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
>>> -sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
>>> -
>>> +Run the following commands to enable postfix during startup:
>>> +  - sysrc postfix_enable="YES"
>>> +  - sysrc sendmail_enable="NONE"
>> 
>> Hi Olli,
>> 
>> rc.sendmail(8) says:
>>     sendmail_enable
>>              The ``NONE'' option is deprecated and should not be
>>              used.  It will be removed in a future release.
>> 
>> To future-proof the pkg-message, you might want to keep the original 4 _enable="NO" commands in there.
>> 
>> # Adam
> 
> Hi Adam,
> 
> ups, thanks for the hint!
> 
> If this short form will go away (announced already since FreeBSD 5.0) we have to fix also all other mailer, where I looked what thy are telling the user.
> 
> I have more concerns that at some time sendmail and *mailwrapper* will be provided as dedicated (pkg) package for the FreeBSD OS and we have to fiddle this out in the pkg-install script ...
> 
> If you like I can change it back to the 4 lines instructions (but I would tend to 'rm' the 'NONE is deprecated' statement from rc.sendmail)

I had no idea it had been "deprecated" for that long! I agree with everything you said. NONE makes far more sense than having to use four separate directives. 

A pkg keyword would definitely be best though. It would be nice to have every MTA handle mailer.conf in the same, predictable way.

# Adam


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