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Date:      Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:47:20 -0600
From:      "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD@keyslapper.org>
Subject:   Re: postfix launch at system startup
Message-ID:  <200411172147.20446.algould@datawok.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041118023638.GA899@keyslapper.org>
References:  <20041118023638.GA899@keyslapper.org>

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On Wednesday 17 November 2004 08:36 pm, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> Hey all.  I'm having a little trouble with postfix launch at startup
> in 5.3.
>
> At install, I specified postfix as the mta, and had it configured in
> /etc/mail/mailer.conf.  The /stand/sysinstall shell also added the
> following to /etc/rc.conf:
>
> sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
> sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
> sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
> sendmail_flags="-bd"
> sendmail_enable="YES"

This seems wrong, particularly the last line. Try:

sendmail_enable="NONE"

>
> I figured that would be the end of it.
>
> I can't find anything to indicate what should be done to make it
> start up at system boot.  Once the system is up, I simply execute
>
> postfix start
>
> as root and everything works as planned, but I wonder if I'm missing
> something?
>
> Anyone else have this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Lou

Follow the instructions at the link below:

http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/notes/freebsd_postfix.html

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould



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