From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 9 05:28:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C7C416A4CE for ; Sun, 9 May 2004 05:28:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from data-action.co.uk (82-35-108-32.cable.ubr06.dals.blueyonder.co.uk [82.35.108.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CC4743D53 for ; Sun, 9 May 2004 05:28:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@itserviceltd.com) Received: from itserviceltd.com ([192.168.1.11]) by data-action.co.uk with MailEnable ESMTP; Sun, 09 May 2004 13:28:39 +0100 Message-ID: <409E23F6.20209@itserviceltd.com> Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 13:28:38 +0100 From: David Rigler User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway References: <409A824B.8080405@itserviceltd.com> <20040506193631.GB86163@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040506193631.GB86163@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: postfix X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 12:28:43 -0000 >Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 07:22:03PM +0100, David Rigler wrote: > >>/usr/ports/mail/postfix on FreeBSD 5.2.1 >> >>should that work ?? it doesnt on my system >> >>or rather having chosen the replace sendmail option by editing rc.conf >>the /etc/rc.d/sendmail script only works for start, the >>stop,reload,restart etc dont work > > > You need to do more than this, see the pkg-message file, which would > have been displayed to you when you installed the port. > > Kris -If you have postfix configured in your /etc/mail/mailer.conf (answered -yes to the previous question) and would like to enable postfix to start -at boot time, please set these variables in your /etc/rc.conf file: - -sendmail_enable="YES" -sendmail_flags="-bd" -sendmail_pidfile="/var/spool/postfix/pid/master.pid" -sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" -sendmail_submit_enable="NO" -sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" - -This will disable Sendmail completely. Thats what i did, i dont see any other instructions in pkg-message Dave