Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 20:12:12 +0100 From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> To: Nash Nipples <trashy_bumper@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do i send mail to certain domain users over external smtp using sendmail? Message-ID: <20060511191212.GA10296@uk.tiscali.com> In-Reply-To: <20060511131959.29296.qmail@web36302.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060511130341.GA9353@uk.tiscali.com> <20060511131959.29296.qmail@web36302.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 06:19:59AM -0700, Nash Nipples wrote: > Upgrade to exim - *any* mail routing policy you can think of can be > implemented in exim. > > lol thanks! i've read about it and i think its awesome but yet i dont > know how do i uninstall sendmail? It's part of the base system, so you just ignore it. 1. Install exim from ports or packages 2. Edit /etc/mail/mailer.conf so that it reads sendmail /usr/local/sbin/exim send-mail /usr/local/sbin/exim mailq /usr/local/sbin/exim # optional extras newaliases /usr/bin/true hoststat /usr/local/sbin/exim_dumpdb /var/spool/exim wait-remote_smtp purgestat /usr/local/sbin/exim_tidydb -t 1d /var/spool/exim wait-remote_smtp (I'm not sure if the port does that for you automatically) 3. Edit /etc/rc.conf sendmail_enable="NONE" exim_enable="YES" So whilst this doesn't actually purge your system of the devil-spawn, it does neutralise it :-) The default install works as a basic out-of-the-box sendmail: i.e. it delivers to mbox files /var/mail/foo, honours /etc/aliases and .forward files. You then read the config samples and start tweaking to add whatever features and policies you like. The entire flow-of-control, from accepting mail to delivering it, is soft-coded in the configure file (but it doesn't look like Snoopy swearing) Regards, Brian.
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