From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 30 10:18:58 2003 Return-Path: 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 E0CB716A4B3 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:18:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mygirlfriday.info (adsl-65-64-145-209.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net [65.64.145.209]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B643743FE0 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:18:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gv-list-freebsdquestions@mygirlfriday.info) Received: (qmail 4641 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2003 17:18:27 -0000 Received: from user204.net795.mo.sprint-hsd.net (HELO mygirlfriday.info) (65.41.216.204) by mongo.mygirlfriday.info with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 30 Sep 2003 17:18:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 17468 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2003 17:18:55 -0000 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by major.mygirlfriday.info with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 30 Sep 2003 17:18:55 -0000 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:18:54 -0500 From: Gary To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <4390000.1064942334@[192.168.0.5]> In-Reply-To: <20030930100333.6361a0ed.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> 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> <20030930100333.6361a0ed.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.0b8 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:18:59 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:18:59 -0000 Hi Chris, --On Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:03:33 AM -0700 Chris Pressey wrote: >> 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. Ah, okay.. >> > 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... Actually, I was referring to running a MUA that does not use the Sendmail switch automatically, as Mutt would use, but something like KMail, or whatever, which requires one to put in the SMTP address (IIRC). > 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. Okay, I am now seeing a better appreciation of how this FBSD MTA wrapper works, allowing one to switch MTAs almost on the fly... cool Thanks for your input.. -- Gary