Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 04:10:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Daniel Flickinger <attila@hun.org> To: Michael Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org> Cc: FreeBSD-CURRENT <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sendmail_enable="NONE" doesn't appear in rc.conf Message-ID: <20030309041057.LDXJ73310@hun.org> In-Reply-To: <007c01c2e593$763c4610$0245a8c0@KutuluWare> References: <20030308164808.4GHM65494@hun.org>
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Sent: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 11:55:01 -0500 by Michael Edenfield:
|
| To: "Daniel Flickinger" <attila@hun.org>
| Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 11:48 AM
|
| > I have not checked recently, but 'make installworld' has
| > always trashed files:
| >
| > /usr/sbin/sendmail
| > /usr/bin/mailq
| > /usr/bin/newaliases
| >
| > which, in the default, are symbolic links to
| > /usr/sbin/mailwrapper.
| >
| > Using postfix which installs its own /usr/sbin/sendmail
| > which is a program, not a symbolic link, I:
| >
| > cd /usr/sbin
| > mv sendmail postmail
| > ln -s postmail sendmail
|
| If installed from ports, Postfix installs a /user/local/sbin/sendmail which
| does not interfere with the mailwrapper setup. The port also fixes
| /etc/mail/mailer.conf to point to the postfix binary instead of the sendmail
| binary. The only thing you need to watch is mergemaster putting the default
| mailer settings back.
|
| --K
Yes, I was aware of that; however, per my comments, I
prefer to build postfix into its default positions.
Habit, I guess, since ports did not reflect current
versions of postfix and I have been handbuilding for
several years. The critical items are to not build
sendmail, and to block the sendmail startup calls in
rc.?
As good (and essential) as mergemaster is, it can still
be a nuisance.
Choose your poison? or maybe I took Perry's BUGS
statement in mailwrapper too literally... despite the
fact mailwrapper permits you to be multi-culturally
schizophrenic, I'll do it my way ... it works; and
it leaves no witnesses.
--
If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.
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