From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 2 23:22:45 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 820BF16A417 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:22:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: from smtp106.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp106.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.205]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A80A13C43E for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:22:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: (qmail 38930 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2007 23:22:44 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=prodigy.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:In-Reply-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Message-Id:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Cc:From:Subject:Date:To:X-Mailer; b=j1nj7c0IvNwUqru5/F9GmH6z6FaIuvSinSY9zUANWaP06hcwOIFj3bLD1Ek3rhHFedeTtJODX+CInlI1xP2kHitxoeZdAQkHqhn/7Es6v6hW28Vc6BIqDKXh+/FtvNkERskC/qJdX9f+0NgiM4aXzA+ZXL8hJhPaAR7meuhK2dw= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?75.7.236.228?) (jekillen@prodigy.net@75.7.236.228 with plain) by smtp106.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Oct 2007 23:22:43 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: 1IrGUPUVM1lYwIbnRhfqlWsFm7lJzIlfh_wO0qz7P8XLTc0gqkYyxsmiuq8lCFEmOHl.MmXjTg-- In-Reply-To: <20071002025649.K56027@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> References: <33ab8f5a4dac86879f81a1c39d757b08@prodigy.net> <20071002025649.K56027@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <3ff5b31f5872233a810207eab593b208@prodigy.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: jekillen Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:23:25 -0700 To: Duane Hill X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: question about Postfix X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:22:45 -0000 On Oct 1, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Duane Hill wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 at 19:50 -0700, jekillen@prodigy.net confabulated: > >> Hello; >> I have a quick question about Postfix. >> When I install Free BSD and have it >> include Postfix from packages, does >> the install process completely replace >> Sendmail with Postfix, or do I still have >> to replace Sendmail with Postfix separately? >> Thanks in advance >> Jeff K > > If you install Postfix from the ports collection: > > /usr/ports/mail/postfix > > toward the end of the install process, it will ask you if you wish for > the install to make changes in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. You tell it yes. > If it did not ask, /etc/mail/mailer.conf should look like this: > > sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > > This is what so-to-speak "plugs" Postfix into the OS. > > To totally disable SendMail from running at startup after a reboot, > you have to make some additions to the /etc/rc.conf config file. > Namely, you have to add: > > sendmail_enable="NO" > sendmail_submit_enable="NO" > sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" > sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" > > Also, there are some periodic things that are ran which are SendMail > specific that need to be disabled. That is done within > /etc/periodic.conf as such: > > daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO" > daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" > daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO" > daily_submit_queuerun="NO" > > O.K. This is something I have not been aware of. As far as MTA's on any system I am somewhat of a newbe. I do get regular e-mails to the root accounts of my various (four) systems when they are running constantly, (two are) and I have been wondering how a switch over will effect that. I will need to do a system specific configuration of postfix and define system specific aliases, prevent public use of the servers for open relaying and such. So I expect for a first timer I have my work cut out for me. Thanks for the info, much appreciated. Jeff K (I'm not looking to spam anyone)