Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:39:55 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sendmail and Postfix Message-ID: <4FE4BBFB.4080107@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <js2cuq$hs4$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <js2cuq$hs4$1@dough.gmane.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 22/06/2012 19:19, Walter Hurry wrote: > It seems that Sendmail is embedded somehow in the base system. What is > the 'approved' way to get rid of /usr/bin/mailq? Or better, remove > Sendmail? You don't need to remove the base system sendmail. All you need to do is set up /etc/mail/mailer.conf properly -- and installing the postfix port should do that for you -- and then any reference to /usr/sbin/sendmail, /usr/bin/mailq, usr/bin/hoststat etc. will run postfix instead. It's really very nicely done. See mailer.conf(5) Cheers, Matthew PS. Alright, yes. You can prevent sendmail from being built as part of the base system by defining 'WITHOUT_SENDMAIL=yes' in /etc/src.conf, but this supposes that you want to build the system yourself, rather than using, say, freebsd-update(8). See src.conf(5) and read in /usr/src/UPDATING and the Handbook about the procedure for building the system from source. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/kvAIACgkQ8Mjk52CukIyWgQCfQ/ITM+/YJDXFoLyaEiWwY5Ij LdIAn1V2VJkUCUYLQZUE49oO93nMRVT1 =tKr+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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