Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:51:16 -0700 From: "Brian W." <brian@brianwhalen.net> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Sendmail and Postfix Message-ID: <CADV=szWvdf60Len7eWwK2UyvmUho-ikKRJfP_UkJW5VL%2BQYz9g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FE4BBFB.4080107@FreeBSD.org> References: <js2cuq$hs4$1@dough.gmane.org> <4FE4BBFB.4080107@FreeBSD.org>
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During subsequent system upgrades, of you build from source, you should watch out for thus during the mergemaster piece. Brian On Jun 22, 2012 11:44 AM, "Matthew Seaman" <matthew@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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 > > > >
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