From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 7 23:29:29 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 BDA1F37B401 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:29:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C7B43F08 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:29:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h087TCSP038223; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 20:29:12 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h087TCqP038222; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 20:29:12 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 20:29:12 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Kurt Bigler Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail Message-ID: <20030108072912.GA38197@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20030107065900.GA34226@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:26:53PM -0800, Kurt Bigler wrote: > 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. /usr/sbin/sendmail is a symbolic link to /usr/sbin/mailwrapper. ie invoking /usr/sbin/sendmail will consult /etc/mail/mailer.conf. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "A person should be able to do a small bit of everything, specialisation is for insects" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message