Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 23:26:53 -0800 From: Kurt Bigler <kkb@breathhost.net> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail Message-ID: <BA4112BD.6232%kkb@breathhost.net> In-Reply-To: <20030107065900.GA34226@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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on 1/6/03 10:59 PM, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:29:15PM -0800, Kurt Bigler wrote: > > [...] >> The problem came up when my VPS provider did a system upgrade. This process >> left everything I had intact except I lost my sendmail soft link which had >> pointed to the sendmail replacement provided by qmail. The link was >> replaced by the sendmail binary with the result that I suddently had >> sendmail running again beside qmail. > > The correct thing to do is to leave the sendmail binary alone and > tweak /etc/mail/mailer.conf so that the sendmail replacement is > invoked instead of the base-system's sendmail. Yes, I actually corrected mailer.conf when the problem occurred, but I have heard that some software will try to use /usr/sbin/sendmail explicitly ignoring mailer.conf. That's why so far I also maintain the alias in place of the standard binary. Is this true, or bogus? Thanks, Kurt Bigler To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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