From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 1 03:08:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 876C616AA3D for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 03:08:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from mail.stovebolt.com (mail.stovebolt.com [66.221.101.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C527543D5A for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 03:08:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from [192.168.2.101] (adsl-66-141-179-77.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net [66.141.179.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.stovebolt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72591114313 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 22:00:00 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 22:06:44 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.0 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; boundary="==========37AA5D8B126B52089B5C==========" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:08:04 -0000 --==========37AA5D8B126B52089B5C========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On May 31, 2006 8:58:08 PM -0500 Nikolas Britton=20 wrote: > Hey did anyone see the article on /. about Sendmail being removed from > NetBSD, and being replaced with Postfix? > > What advice can you offer about doing this on FreeBSD? What's > involved, How do you do it, are there any gotta's (cron scripts?), > etc?.... Is it just as simple as installing the Postfix port? How do > you stop buildworld from reinstalling sendmail? /etc/mail/mailer.conf? > > Oh hmm, I see there's a section in the FreeBSD handbook that deals > with this topic... Oh well I've already wrote this much... maybe you > guy and gals have something more to add. > make install clean - follow the instructions in the pkg-message file -=20 done. (Except for any configuration you need to do. If it's a standalone=20 server to send mail from localhost, you don't need to do anything to get it = working.) Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ --==========37AA5D8B126B52089B5C==========--