Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:42:12 -0500 From: Kutulu <kutulu@kutulu.org> To: Doug Silver <dsilver@quantified.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail port vs default sendmail (/usr/src)? Message-ID: <20020102154212.A1282@pr0n.kutulu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0201021202210.4006-100000@danzig.sd.quantified.net>; from dsilver@quantified.com on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 12:28:04PM -0800 References: <200201021953.g02Jr3O93839@onceler.kciLink.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0201021202210.4006-100000@danzig.sd.quantified.net>
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On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 12:28:04PM -0800, Doug Silver wrote:
> If using the ports is preferred, why isn't a startup script included in
> /usr/local/etc/rc script for the sendmail port to use?
Because sendmail startup support is in the base system, there's no
need to put a startup script in. Sendmail, in fact, is a special case, in
that there is *a lot* of support in the base system for replacing it with a
new version and/or totally different MTA.
If you want to do this, here's the "proper" way. I say proper only because
this is how the install documentation for postfix instruct one to replace
sendmail with postfix, and I assume the same applies to replacing base
sendmail with a ports sendmail:
1. Install sendmail from ports as normal.
2. Edit /etc/mail/mailer.conf
* Replace each instance of the base sendmail path with the pathname to
the new sendmail binary.
3. Optional but recommended: Edit /etc/make.conf and add:
NO_SENDMAIL= true
The various mail programs (like mailq and newaliases and even sendmail
itself) are just links to mailwrapper(8), which reads /etc/mail/mailer.conf
to determine what program to run for a given function. Read the man pages
to mailer.conf(5) and mailwrapper(8) for more details, but overall it's a
very clean way to replace the system MTA with very little collateral damage.
--K
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