Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 11:18:40 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Postfix port binding problem Message-ID: <20020106101839.GA78069@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <20020106061147.GA1003@raggedclown.net> References: <20020104233915.D93879-100000@bsd.smnolde.com> <20020106053933.2D70F5D17@ptavv.es.net> <20020106061147.GA1003@raggedclown.net>
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On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 07:11:47AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 09:39:33PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 23:41:01 -0500 (EST) > > > From: Scott Nolde <scott@smnolde.com> > > > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > > > > > > Chances are you didn't disable sendmail before starting postfix. You can > > > do this in /etc/rc.conf with sendmail_enable="NO", then kill sendmail, and > > > start postfix. > > > > This is REALLY not the way you are supposed to do it, although it will > > work. > > > > The right way is to install postfix from the ports and do a "make > > replace" when you are done. Then "killall sendmail" and restart it. > > > This is correct. > > > In FreeBSD, /usr/sbin/sendmail is really a wrapper that can start > > sendmail, postfix, qmail and probably others. It takes any sendmail > > commands and reformats them for he mailer being used. > > This is not correct. Yes it is. > > Postfix replaces sendmail with it's program called sendmail, which > understands most of the relevant sendmail command line options. > But *is* a postfix program. > > It has links made to it for "mailq" etc. > > The wrapper you refer to does not exist. > How on earth did you come by this extraordinary idea ? Please read the mailwrapper(8) manpage. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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