From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 13 09:19:14 2004 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 8C94316A4CE for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:19:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2545343D2D for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:19:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) i6D9J18R073264 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:19:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i6D9J0cn073259; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:19:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:19:00 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Darren Pilgrim Message-ID: <20040713091900.GA72898@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Darren Pilgrim , questions@freebsd.org References: <000101c468af$09f42fe0$152a15ac@spud> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000101c468af$09f42fe0$152a15ac@spud> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Greylist: Message not sent from an IPv4 address, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.3 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [0.0.0.0]); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:19:01 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040705, clamav-milter version 0.74a on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail(1) breaks when contrib/sendmail is replaced with postfix? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:19:14 -0000 --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 12:57:21AM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > /usr/bin/mail tries to run /usr/sbin/sendmail directly. This probably is= n't > a good idea, since IIRC sendmail can now be package-ized and removed from > the base system as well as excluded from buildworld. This is what seems = to > be breaking the periodic script, since I get this error when running > periodic: Piping a message into /usr/sbin/sendmail is the standard Unix API for sending e-mail. You shouldn't remove it just because of the name 'sendmail'. Despite the name, that is not the sendmail(8) binary on FreeBSD. It's a link to a wrapper program that substitutes which ever MTA (postfix, exim, qmail, sendmail, etc.) you wish to use. It's all explained in the mailwrapper(8) man page. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA86kEiD657aJF7eIRAkcxAJ9lGRqfwgaYG6kOW0D9JONNzaKSfgCeN//o JG/F5rkgh24jmL0kbKRNBWA= =IV4+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s--