Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 09:19:24 -0500 From: Michael Dungan <vega@vatican.rh.rit.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail Message-ID: <20001202091924.A65973@rit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011302334200.6014-100000@kraeusen.nbrewer.com>; from chris@northernbrewer.com on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:46:27PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011302334200.6014-100000@kraeusen.nbrewer.com>
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For what it's worth, I have had this exact same problem for over 6 months, but it never bothered me enough to write into the list. NO_SENDMAIL=true has been uncommented in make.conf the whole time, yet every time I re-make the the world, sendmail (whichever version is included in the newly re-made world) clobbers postfix (even as recently as about 10 days ago.) My only solace is the fact that I can set up postfix in <10 minutes now, including compile time. I guess practice made perfect. (using 4-STABLE the whole time) has anyone had this problem and was actually able to fix it? (again, NO_SENDMAIL=true ain't doing the job.) mike On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:46:27PM -0600, Christopher Farley wrote: > Today I started tracking FreeBSD-STABLE (from 4.0-RELEASE). After it was > all said an done, my sendmail 8.10.1 installation was trashed, > despite having the NO_SENDMAIL flag set to "true" in /etc/make.conf. > > After telnetting to freebsd.org 25 and seeing that freebsd.org ran > Postfix (as well as my service provider, and several other sites I > respect), I installed Postfix from the ports collection. An hour later, > I now have a sendmail-free system. And I didn't even have to 'compile' a > .cf file. > > My question is: how can I prevent "make world" from trashing my Postfix > installation in the future? I needed to make some symlinks from > /usr/sbin/sendmail --> /usr/local/sbin/sendmail, etc. > > Why doesn't the standard FreeBSD distribution come with Postfix > (very easy to configure, doesn't run as root) instead of Sendmail? > > ---- > Christopher Farley > Northern Brewer / 1150 Grand Avenue / St. Paul, MN 55105 > www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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