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Date:      Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:34:45 -0800
From:      Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org>
To:        "Erwan Arzur" <erwan@netvalue.com>, Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
Cc:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Patrick O'Reilly <patrick@mip.co.za>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Postfix???
Message-ID:  <01062209344501.09861@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org>
In-Reply-To: <3B337991.FFB759EC@netvalue.com>
References:  <15154.27155.210329.267288@guru.mired.org> <993167730.13290.3.camel@percible.alfred.cx> <3B337991.FFB759EC@netvalue.com>

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On Friday 22 June 2001 09:00, Erwan Arzur wrote:
> > 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 :-)
>
> These soft links are a major PITA when upgrading with buildworld ...
>
> I've got the same problem once, and someone around here told me :
>
> "man mailer.conf"

The only thing you need to do to properly install postfix is run "make 
replace" after your install. This will properly set up mailer.conf and all 
the related links. Once you do this installworld will not break the setup, 
and there is no need to set "no_sendmail=true".


Beech

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