Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:27:17 -0600 From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I remove sendmail permanently Message-ID: <20011108232714.A18618@northernbrewer.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011109160420.01f3bec0@pop.ozemail.com.au>; from rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 04:06:09PM %2B1100 References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011109160420.01f3bec0@pop.ozemail.com.au>
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Rob B (rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au) wrote: > Does anyone have any pointers on how to replace sendmail with Postfix ... > for good? > > I have built and installed Postfix from ports, and run the make && make > install && make replace scripts, but if I upgrade, won't sendmail get > rebuilt and stomp over Postfix? Hint: don't replace the sendmail binaries with postfix binaries, as hinted in the Postfix README's. Use FreeBSD's mailwrapper! If you do a `man mailer.conf`, this will explain FreeBSD's mailwrapper system. For a Postfix installation, I alter /etc/mail/mailer.conf to point to the "Postfix to Sendmail compatibility interface" which is normally installed in /usr/local/sbin/sendmail (rather than the actual sendmail binary in /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail). -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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