Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 13:23:46 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: "Erik Funkenbusch" <erikf@visi.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Staying current or stable with non-standard MTA Message-ID: <20020408132346.A19877@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <00c901c1deed$1905a3e0$dd8e1bd8@zeus>; from erikf@visi.com on Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 06:04:04AM -0500 References: <00c901c1deed$1905a3e0$dd8e1bd8@zeus>
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On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 06:04:04AM -0500, Erik Funkenbusch wrote: > 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. There is no need to modify or replace any of the "standard" binaries. > > 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? > Yes, please read the mailwrapper(8) and mailer.conf(5) manpages. The default when installing qmail from ports is to have it installed under /var/qmail, thus not changing any of the normal files. After editing /etc/mail/mailer.conf to make sure that qmail is invoked instead of sendmail when /usr/sbin/sendmail is run everything works fine. No need to replace anything after a make world. > 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. mailwrapper(8) is a step in that direction. > 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. You can of course add NO_SENDMAIL=true to /etc/make.conf but there is really no need for that. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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