From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 6 22:59:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D0137B401 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 22:59:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BBC343EB2 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 22:59:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h076x1SP034300; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 19:59:01 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h076x0iZ034299; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 19:59:00 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 19:59:00 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Kurt Bigler Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail Message-ID: <20030107065900.GA34226@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <000001c2b5e6$8567c0b0$6a32a8c0@dpg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:29:15PM -0800, Kurt Bigler wrote: [...] > The problem came up when my VPS provider did a system upgrade. This process > left everything I had intact except I lost my sendmail soft link which had > pointed to the sendmail replacement provided by qmail. The link was > replaced by the sendmail binary with the result that I suddently had > sendmail running again beside qmail. The correct thing to do is to leave the sendmail binary alone and tweak /etc/mail/mailer.conf so that the sendmail replacement is invoked instead of the base-system's sendmail. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message