To enable dma please edit /etc/mail/mailer.conf to replace all lines referring to another MTA with the following: sendmail %%PREFIX%%/libexec/dma send-mail %%PREFIX%%/libexec/dma mailq %%PREFIX%%/libexec/dma 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" if you want anything in your queue to be flushed at on boot or before shutdown, add the following to rc.conf as well: dma_flushq_enable="YES" you can also add a cronjob to do regular mailq flushes using the following command: %%PREFIX%%/libexec/dma -q And you can disable some sendmail specific daily maintenance routines in your /etc/periodic.conf file: daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO" daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO" daily_submit_queuerun="NO"