Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 03:04:28 +0000 (UTC) From: Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> To: jekillen <jekillen@prodigy.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about Postfix Message-ID: <20071002025649.K56027@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> In-Reply-To: <33ab8f5a4dac86879f81a1c39d757b08@prodigy.net> References: <33ab8f5a4dac86879f81a1c39d757b08@prodigy.net>
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 at 19:50 -0700, jekillen@prodigy.net confabulated: > Hello; > I have a quick question about Postfix. > When I install Free BSD and have it > include Postfix from packages, does > the install process completely replace > Sendmail with Postfix, or do I still have > to replace Sendmail with Postfix separately? > Thanks in advance > Jeff K If you install Postfix from the ports collection: /usr/ports/mail/postfix toward the end of the install process, it will ask you if you wish for the install to make changes in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. You tell it yes. If it did not ask, /etc/mail/mailer.conf should look like this: sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail This is what so-to-speak "plugs" Postfix into the OS. To totally disable SendMail from running at startup after a reboot, you have to make some additions to the /etc/rc.conf config file. Namely, you have to add: sendmail_enable="NO" sendmail_submit_enable="NO" sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" Also, there are some periodic things that are ran which are SendMail specific that need to be disabled. That is done within /etc/periodic.conf as such: daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO" daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO" daily_submit_queuerun="NO" ------ _|_ (_| |
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