From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 17: 4: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.plug.cx (unix-gw.gihs.sa.edu.au [203.63.40.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00C7437B41E for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:03:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew.reid@plug.cx) Received: from percible.alfred.cx (firewall.gihs.sa.edu.au [192.168.1.1]) by mail.plug.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99C732B7C4; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:54:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: Postfix??? From: Andrew Reid To: Mike Meyer Cc: Patrick O'Reilly , questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <15154.27155.210329.267288@guru.mired.org> References: <15154.27155.210329.267288@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.10.99 (Preview Release) Date: 22 Jun 2001 09:25:30 +0930 Message-Id: <993167730.13290.3.camel@percible.alfred.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 21 Jun 2001 16:41:39 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > Backwards compatability with sendmail was a postfix goal, so things > like alias files and mail lists and so on keep working without > change. This isn't true with qmail, for instance. That makes postfix > an easier step than qmail. I don't know about exim. One thing that you've got to watch with Postfix is making sure you properly replace Sendmail. Otherwise, you'll find you'll get errors when you send stuff from the local box. I've just linked /usr/local/sbin/sendmail to /usr/sbin/sendmail which fixed the problem. That took me several hours and lots of hair-pulling to work out :-) - andrew -- void signature () { cout << "Andrew Reid -- andrew.reid@plug.cx" << endl ; cout << "Cell: +61 401 946 813" << endl; cout << "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur" << endl; } To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message