>>Of course, as always, this kind of magic fails. Damnit, I don't want no
>>stupid rc.d script to decide that I was wrong and "tune" machine
>>configuration parameters for me.
>>
>>I think this change needs to be backed out ASAP. It has been discussed
>>before and met resistance. There have been easy alternatives with less
>>magic proposed.
> 
> can you cite some?

Why not simply put sendmail=YES (or postfix=YES) in  /etc/rc.conf or in
/etc/defaults/rc.conf by default? This would be simple and without any "magic".
Or am I missing something? 

Bye	Pavel