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Date:      Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:00:32 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        jekillen <jekillen@prodigy.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Joe in MPLS <joe@gracenpeace.net>
Subject:   Re: question about Postfix
Message-ID:  <20071003130032.GA4014@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <7d01f02b6ddc1b1ff9c710db3f699dbd@prodigy.net>
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On 2007-10-02 16:12, jekillen <jekillen@prodigy.net> wrote:
> On Oct 1, 2007, at 7:58 PM, Joe in MPLS wrote:
>> The package install of postfix does nothing to sendmail. It's not
>> like the MTA switch utility found in some linux distros. Just turn
>> off the various bits of sendmail in /etc/rc.conf and start postfix.
>> 
>> Postfix does include an executable named "sendmail" that directly
>> replaces some of the "old" sendmail capability.
> 
> This is what is confusing me some. I have a text from SAMS on Postfix
> and it talks about renaming several sendmail related files and
> removing the suid permissions on them.

That book is out of date -- at least as far as FreeBSD is concerned.
We don't rename stuff in FreeBSD, because we have mailwrapper(8) :)




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