From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 20 13:22:54 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 509F416A418 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:22:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB3513C448 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:22:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 70so548875wra for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:22:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.225.14 with SMTP id x14mr586993ybg.1192886572095; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:22:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.102? ( [67.189.206.211]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 3sm4808118wrh.2007.10.20.06.22.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:22:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:23:08 -0400 To: User Questions Organization: Seibercom.net In-Reply-To: <20071019214400.GB1178@remdog.net> References: <36DEAEF356AC23874A9B9225@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <20071019214400.GB1178@remdog.net> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20071020091358.F404.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.30.04 [en] From: Gerard Subject: Re: Postfix woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: User Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:22:54 -0000 On October 19, 2007 at 05:44PM Rem P Roberti wrote: [ ... ] > This is a follow-up. My friend arrived back home and I explained the > problems that I was having. He said, simple, remark out > postfix_enable="YES" in your rc.conf. I did. Problem solved. Now I > have neither postfix_enable, or sendmail_enable in my rc.conf, and > everything boots without a hitch. This, of course, flies in the face > of everything that I have heard or read about configuring this program. > When I asked what was starting the program if those entries were no > longer operating he said the shell script contained in rc.d. > > I need to give this a rest. 1) Did you install Postfix from ports? 2) Did you read the information available at: http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/notes/freebsd_postfix.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-changingmta.html 3) Are you now implying that postfix starts even though you have it disabled in the /etc/rc.conf file? You should not have had Sendmail and postfix running at the same time anyway. Besides you /etc/rc.conf file, do you also have a /etc/rc.conf.local file? If so, what does it contain. I am assuming that you never touched the /etc/defaults/rc.conf file. If you did alter it, that was a mistake. Postfix is not simply starting on its own. Somewhere, somehow, something is starting it. -- Gerard