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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!inXS.uu.net!panix!news.columbia.edu!news.new-york.net!tzlink.j51.com!usenet From: landau@yu1.yu.edu (k) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: A Serious article for the FreeBSD support group Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 01:37:50 GMT Organization: TZ-Link, a public-access online community in Nyack, NY. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4qkrlj$d4h@tzlink.j51.com> References: <4qcqts$t61@tzlink.j51.com> <31CB150C.4E191FC9@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: pmb18.j51.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99.82 Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >k wrote: >] Why isn't sendmail placed in the setup as a mandatory install >] requirement? >Because attaching your machine to a network for sendmail to act >as your mail exchanger is not required. You can install FreeBSD >on your machine in your garage and never connect it to a network. >Sendmail is *not* a mandatory system component. If this is ture, (which I agree is probably the case) why is freebsd originally configured to poll for mail so that when I come back to the machine the next morning. I get error messages accross the screen. Your reply is correct, but you are not answering the question I am asking. Furthermore, let's say that I did not intend to have my machine on a network, why is there no documetation about how to stop this procees from polling for the mail server each evening? Kenny