Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:12:37 -0500 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "Christopher Schulte" <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org>, "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>, "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Preserve Postfix When Upgrading? Message-ID: <20020201001029.7B21248449@wastegate.net> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020131124528.0469dba8@pop3s.schulte.org>
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:51:44 -0600, Christopher Schulte wrote: >At 12:41 PM 1/31/2002 -0500, Doug Reynolds wrote: >>easy- when you run mergemaster, don't let it use the temporary >>mailer.conf, because that will reenable sendmail. I believe there is >>an option you can put in the make.conf so you won't compile sendmail, >>but i don't know what it is. > >man make.conf, take a look at NO_SENDMAIL > >PS: mailer.conf hasn't changed since 1999, so ( for the time being ) >mergemaster won't be an issue. But be aware of this local customization >if/when mailer.conf does change, so you'll know to install the new version >and import local mods that point to postfix. Maybe some day postfix will >be the default FreeBSD MTA. Wishful thinking, perhaps. yeah- the mailer.conf didn't change until you installed postfix. the mailwrapper points to the right postfix program, instead of the sendmail bins.. but I guess you still need to add the NO_SENDMAIL to make.conf.. i forgot i did that when i was using qmail --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 6E7B 9993 B503 6D45 E33A 2019 26E5 C1DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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