Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 07:11:47 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Postfix port binding problem Message-ID: <20020106061147.GA1003@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20020106053933.2D70F5D17@ptavv.es.net> References: <20020104233915.D93879-100000@bsd.smnolde.com> <20020106053933.2D70F5D17@ptavv.es.net>
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On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 09:39:33PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 23:41:01 -0500 (EST) > > From: Scott Nolde <scott@smnolde.com> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > > > Chances are you didn't disable sendmail before starting postfix. You can > > do this in /etc/rc.conf with sendmail_enable="NO", then kill sendmail, and > > start postfix. > > This is REALLY not the way you are supposed to do it, although it will > work. > > The right way is to install postfix from the ports and do a "make > replace" when you are done. Then "killall sendmail" and restart it. > This is correct. > In FreeBSD, /usr/sbin/sendmail is really a wrapper that can start > sendmail, postfix, qmail and probably others. It takes any sendmail > commands and reformats them for he mailer being used. This is not correct. Postfix replaces sendmail with it's program called sendmail, which understands most of the relevant sendmail command line options. But *is* a postfix program. It has links made to it for "mailq" etc. The wrapper you refer to does not exist. How on earth did you come by this extraordinary idea ? -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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