Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 16:21:16 -0500 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "Christopher Farley" <chris@northernbrewer.com>, "Rob B" <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How do I remove sendmail permanently Message-ID: <20011111212148.D6B2237B405@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:27:17 -0600, Christopher Farley wrote: >Rob B (rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au) wrote: > >> Does anyone have any pointers on how to replace sendmail with Postfix ... >> for good? >> >> I have built and installed Postfix from ports, and run the make && make >> install && make replace scripts, but if I upgrade, won't sendmail get >> rebuilt and stomp over Postfix? > >Hint: don't replace the sendmail binaries with postfix binaries, as >hinted in the Postfix README's. Use FreeBSD's mailwrapper! > >If you do a `man mailer.conf`, this will explain FreeBSD's mailwrapper >system. For a Postfix installation, I alter /etc/mail/mailer.conf >to point to the "Postfix to Sendmail compatibility interface" which >is normally installed in /usr/local/sbin/sendmail (rather than the >actual sendmail binary in /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail). I will also note that I run qmail (which is a slight pain in the ass to install/setup), but i installed postfix on my buddy's machine, it is was pretty much a no brainer. --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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