How to keep unnecessary processes from starting

[Derek Broughton]

Charles Howse wrote:

> Now, here's something I may have gone about all wrong.  I use FreeBSD
> on my webserver, which comes with /usr/bin/mail by default.  I use
> that and sendmail (installed by default) to send mail in scripts, and
> retrieve it from my Mac using a lightweight pop3 app called qpopper.
> I don't do *any* mail outside the box.
> Since 'mail' isn't installed by default, I installed mailutils, which
> installed Exim4.  I read a little about Exim, couldn't find a howto to
> set it up as a pop server, so I installed Dovecot as a pop server
> (crazy hard for me).
> IIRC, sendmail wasn't difficult to set up to send local mail in
> FreeBSD, so I wonder if I could use sendmail in Intrepid, and
> uninstall Dovecot and Exim?
> Does that make sense?

No.  Sendmail doesn't provide a pop server either.  Sendmail/Exim/Postfix
are smtp servers.  dovecot is probably the simplest pop server you'll find. 
I _hate_ sendmail with a passion, but if you're already using it on another
server, that's probably the way to go.  dovecot doesn't want Exim, it
wants "mail-transport-agent" which is automatically satisfied by installing
Exim if you have nothing else providing it.  I use masqmail, many use
postfix.

If you want to use sendmail, you can just install it and exim will get
automatically removed.
-- 
derek