From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 6 8:29: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp2.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 95EE837B404 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 08:28:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 21073 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2002 16:28:47 -0000 Received: from dap-209-166-136-156.nfas.greensburg-tnt-1.sns234.pa.stargate.net (HELO wastegate.net) (209.166.136.156) by smtp2.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 6 Jan 2002 16:28:47 -0000 Received: from mother.wastegate.net (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.2]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with SMTP id A74B748425; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 11:28:08 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Cliff Sarginson" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 11:29:35 -0500 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2380) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <20020106061147.GA1003@raggedclown.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Postfix port binding problem Message-Id: <20020106162808.A74B748425@wastegate.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 >> > 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 --- 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