From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 7 23:27: 0 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6B1837B401 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:26:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27C1343F08 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:26:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkb@breathhost.net) Received: from [192.168.1.63] (12-240-247-89.client.attbi.com[12.240.247.89]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with SMTP id <2003010807265300200j30g5e>; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 07:26:53 +0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.0.3 Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 23:26:53 -0800 Subject: Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail From: Kurt Bigler To: Jonathan Chen , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20030107065900.GA34226@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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 1/6/03 10:59 PM, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:29:15PM -0800, Kurt Bigler wrote: > > [...] >> The problem came up when my VPS provider did a system upgrade. This process >> left everything I had intact except I lost my sendmail soft link which had >> pointed to the sendmail replacement provided by qmail. The link was >> replaced by the sendmail binary with the result that I suddently had >> sendmail running again beside qmail. > > The correct thing to do is to leave the sendmail binary alone and > tweak /etc/mail/mailer.conf so that the sendmail replacement is > invoked instead of the base-system's sendmail. Yes, I actually corrected mailer.conf when the problem occurred, but I have heard that some software will try to use /usr/sbin/sendmail explicitly ignoring mailer.conf. That's why so far I also maintain the alias in place of the standard binary. Is this true, or bogus? Thanks, Kurt Bigler To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message