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Date:      Sun, 06 Jan 2002 11:29:35 -0500
From:      "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
To:        "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.net>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Postfix port binding problem
Message-ID:  <20020106162808.A74B748425@wastegate.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020106061147.GA1003@raggedclown.net>

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On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 07:11:47 +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote:

>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 ?

the wrapper really does exist:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  21 Jan  1 17:40 sendmail@ ->
/usr/sbin/mailwrapper

the mailwrapper just calls the /etc/mail/mailer.conf to see what
program to call to send the mail

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doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net

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