Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
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>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20011111212148.D6B2237B405>