Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 11:29:35 -0500 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.net>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Postfix port binding problem Message-ID: <20020106162808.A74B748425@wastegate.net> In-Reply-To: <20020106061147.GA1003@raggedclown.net>
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On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 07:11:47 +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: >On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 09:39:33PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> > Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 23:41:01 -0500 (EST) >> > From: Scott Nolde <scott@smnolde.com> >> > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> > >> > >> > Chances are you didn't disable sendmail before starting postfix. You can >> > do this in /etc/rc.conf with sendmail_enable="NO", then kill sendmail, and >> > start postfix. >> >> This is REALLY not the way you are supposed to do it, although it will >> work. >> >> The right way is to install postfix from the ports and do a "make >> replace" when you are done. Then "killall sendmail" and restart it. >> >This is correct. > >> In FreeBSD, /usr/sbin/sendmail is really a wrapper that can start >> sendmail, postfix, qmail and probably others. It takes any sendmail >> commands and reformats them for he mailer being used. > >This is not correct. > >Postfix replaces sendmail with it's program called sendmail, which >understands most of the relevant sendmail command line options. >But *is* a postfix program. > >It has links made to it for "mailq" etc. > >The wrapper you refer to does not exist. >How on earth did you come by this extraordinary idea ? the wrapper really does exist: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21 Jan 1 17:40 sendmail@ -> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper the mailwrapper just calls the /etc/mail/mailer.conf to see what program to call to send the mail --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 6E7B 9993 B503 6D45 E33A 2019 26E5 C1DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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