From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 25 01:50:25 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 41FC016A419 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:50:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: from smtp102.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp102.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F185513C48A for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:50:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: (qmail 12770 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2007 01:50:24 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=prodigy.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id:Content-Type:To:From:Subject:Date:X-Mailer; b=2FDBy4WELiDE+DVoyIu/284cu4Uk62mJqjICBjv6tB7iqmn6ZW5OYSCW/Io4p0yXv3jQkiw0ybKp3IlN+5j5rS6THtgltH/26EbgbVuLdUrrhWTgicGlFMYVtgbyYmMegg7dDEN+7ggamBhlSxz5MtBTeD6w/UfS5I8mk8iAUiI= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?75.7.236.228?) (jekillen@prodigy.net@75.7.236.228 with plain) by smtp102.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Oct 2007 01:50:23 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: mexsb.wVM1kr3IDvmJJ5sDhVSRKURQtAa108nBl1TqMz2OsJQI86EDGwjjs5WgB2luKvOCLyBUuGTKCHUozCjLWbGdeshFOtW5yJjFaueGCt.LUwTaHaB1LpTAFlDQ-- Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <435060d02e5bb953e1c9413c623d2564@prodigy.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: FreeBSD Mailing List From: jekillen Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:50:22 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) Subject: Periodic.conf? 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: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:50:25 -0000 Hello; The following was a response to a query I posted regarding how to switch over to Postfix from SendMail: 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" However, there is no periodic.conf on my system: v6.2. There is a periodic directory with specific subdirectories. One is 'daily' but I do not know which one would have the above entries. When I installed the OS, I had it include the Postfix package when sysinstall queried for package choices. I want to set this machine up as a hub mail server for four web sites on four separate machines that are connected via inside network. I have not dealt with e-mail related software in general and Postfix or Sendmail specifically. Since I brought in Postfix as a package, I am afraid of trying to install it from Ports for complications, unless ports will account for that. There were also advices to place several entries in rc.conf to disable SendMail. There are no entries either for SendMail, not Postfix there to begin with in rc.conf. In mailer.conf I was told it 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 There were two other entries, hoststat and purgstat. Should these be kept, modified or eliminated? I plan on setting up a test system on the local net. And when that appears to be working properly, I will add it to the DNS records and hook in up to the public network. I am looking to learn to setup and administer mail systems I am a hobbyist at this point, but I have static IP addresses and do web design and related programming, art, music and graphics and have several services that will need a mail server to run e-mail address verification checks and registration verification checks, as well as be a personal mail system so I can let the prodigy.net address just be a spam catcher. I am not looking to spam anyone. Thanks in Advance; Jeff K