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From: "albi@scii.nl" <albi@scii.nl>
To: Gerard Seibert <gerard-seibert@suscom.net>
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Subject: Re: Setting default MTA during system installation
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On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 06:44:08 -0400 (Eastern Standard Time)
Gerard Seibert <gerard-seibert@suscom.net> wrote:

> Doing the installation of FreeBSD, there is an opportunity to choose an 
> MTA. If I choose Postfix for instance, would that be installed as the 
> default MTA or would the Sendmail program still be the default for the 
> system, thereby requiring me to configure Postfix to operate with the 
> system, and ultimately disabling Sendmail?

if you install postfix from ports, it will ask you about this and give
hints about it too

see : /usr/ports/mail/postfix/pkg-message

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