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Joel Gudknecht wrote:
> Do the daily/weekly/monthly scripts need a lot of tweaking to still
> mail reports to root after switching from sendmail to postfix?
> 
> Are the changes necessary documented anywhere?

Changing your MTA is documented on 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-changingmta.html

If you're talking about making sure that the normal periodic script 
reports are emailed back to you: those scripts simply use 
/usr/sbin/sendmail, which is a mailwrapper(8) which should always point 
to your actual sendmail binary. The scripts themselves don't need any 
changes for you to continue to recieve their results.

However, some items in those scripts are no longer needed if you move 
away from sendmail(tm). These are documented in 
/usr/ports/mail/postfix/pkg-message.

Installing via the port is probably the easiest way to get postfix 
installed.

Cheers.

Andrew