On 2022-11-08 at 14:17 EST, Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]> wrote:
Indeed the issue that I intended to raise was that, AFAIK, there is no documentation, for NONE, except if one reads and understands /etc/rc.d/sendmail. It is something that is known by people "in the know", and probably mentioned by a some online tutorials, but I don't think there is anything "official".Even the handbook, in the section about changing MTA (https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/mail/#mail-changingmta) does not mention NONE, but explicitly sets the four variables to NO.
It is documented as deprecated in rc.sendmail(8)
Sorry for missing this: this man page is not linked from sendmail(8), nor from rc(8), nor mentioned in the script that it describes, although it is linked from rc.conf(5) (and from no other manpage, as far as I can tell).
If NONE is deprecated, then perhaps it would have been better to set the four variables to NO in the modifcation.
Also, I wonder whether the value of "mta_start_script" in rc.conf should be changed to reflect that the default MTA is no longer sendmail, and also what the role of /etc/rc.d/othermta should be (and whether it should be updated as well).
Thanks, Matteo
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
