Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:03:33 -0700 From: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> To: Gary <gv-list-freebsdquestions@mygirlfriday.info> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server Message-ID: <20030930100333.6361a0ed.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20030930162932.17273.qmail@letric.mygirlfriday.info> References: <20030930150817.6422.qmail@web10002.mail.yahoo.com> <1950000.1064935241@[192.168.0.5]> <20030930090222.72211682.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> <20030930162932.17273.qmail@letric.mygirlfriday.info>
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:29:32 -0500 Gary <gv-list-freebsdquestions@mygirlfriday.info> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:02:22AM -0700 or thereabouts, Chris Pressey > wrote: > > ...except for some FreeBSD-specific info :) > > > > Here are some tips: > > > > 1) FreeBSD uses a "MTA wrapper" which makes your mailer *look* like > > sendmail, regardless of what your mailer actually is. This wrapper > > is located at /etc/mail/mailer.conf. Mine looks like: > > > > sendmail /var/qmail/bin/sendmail > > send-mail /var/qmail/bin/sendmail > > mailq /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread > > newaliases /var/qmail/bin/newaliases > > Since qmail has a sendmail wrapper to begin with, as noted above, and > it is put in as a replacement (marking the original to sendmail.old), > in/usr/lib/sendmail, and /usr/sbin/sendmail why would you need the > above in mailer.conf? You don't strictly need it, of course, but I find that FreeBSD's MTA wrapper is easier to use - it wasn't written just for qmail, and it doesn't involve directly messing with the sendmail executable. > > This makes setting up non-sendmail mailers quite a bit easier. IIRC > > the PORT_NOTES file in the qmail port has more information about > > this. > > Any non-sendmail mailer, I am assuming you mean those which require > the input of an actual SMTP source, can of course be set for SMTP as > localhost, 127.0.0.1, or the actual LAN IP address. Er - you mean running two different MTA's on different interfaces on the same machine? Sure, I guess you could do that, if you wanted... but I'm just referring to how FreeBSD's MTA wrapper lets you switch between sendmail, qmail, and any other sendmail-compatible MTA (say, Postfix) without too much effort. > BTW, the actual example script given on lifewithqmail.org for > creating groups and users for qmail, is for FreeBSD. Good to know. -Chris
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