Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 06:04:04 -0500 From: "Erik Funkenbusch" <erikf@visi.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Staying current or stable with non-standard MTA Message-ID: <00c901c1deed$1905a3e0$dd8e1bd8@zeus>
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I'm using qmail for my MTA, and have been running this pretty well for about 2 years. I have is that I have made several modifications to the system to accomodate qmail, such as adding sendmail wrappers and remove /bin/mail. The problem is that ever time I cvsup and make world, these get replaced with newly built copies of the original sendmail and /bin/mail. Are there any other qmail users on the list that have solved this problem? I currently have a script to replace these everytime I make world, but this seems kludgy to me and would prefer a more elegant solution than the brute force approach. Any ideas? As a side note, i'm wondering about the viability of a formal change in the layout of the FreeBSD binary structure to make MTA's (and possibly other common base tools) more modular, rather than forcing sendmail on everyone. I realize that sendmail is the defacto standard, and there's lots of software out there that assumes sendmail, however i'd just like a way to have make world not clobber my modified base settings. Hell, i'd be happy with some kind of way to "turn off" individual programs from the compile and install (then I can install my wrappers and not worry about them being replaced). Something akin to the cvsup configuration, perhaps. Thanks for your input. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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