From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Fri Jan 16 08:29:53 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 971F716A4CE
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:29:53 -0800 (PST)
Received: from mail1.marathonmultimedia.com (mail1.marathonmultimedia.com
	[12.47.35.40])	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 367D743D5A
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:29:52 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from joelg@mail1.marathonmultimedia.com)
Received: from mail1.marathonmultimedia.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	i0GGTnco002106;	Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:29:49 -0600 (CST)
	(envelope-from joelg@mail1.marathonmultimedia.com)
Received: (from joelg@localhost)i0GGTmfc002105;
	Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:29:48 -0600 (CST)	(envelope-from joelg)
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:29:48 -0600
From: Joel Gudknecht <joelg@mail1.marathonmultimedia.com>
To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>
Message-ID: <20040116162948.GA2097@mail1.marathonmultimedia.com>
References: <20040116152533.GA2014@mail1.marathonmultimedia.com>
	<400806DC.1070109@cream.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <400806DC.1070109@cream.org>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i
cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Switch MTA -> Postfix
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:29:53 -0000

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 03:44:28PM +0000, Andrew Boothman wrote:
> 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

I've changed the MTA to postfix just fine.
 
> 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.

If I follow the advice from /usr/ports/mail/postfix/pkg-message which states:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Also, you will want to disable some Sendmail-specific daily maintenance
 routines in your /etc/periodic.conf file:

daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO" daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO"
daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO"
daily_submit_queuerun="NO"
--------------------------

The reports stop completely.

> 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.

Before I did this I didn't have a periodic.conf at all, relying on the scripts,
which generated these errors:

Jan 16 03:01:01 postfix postfix/sendmail[2177]: fatal: unsupported: -bh
Jan 16 03:01:02 postfix postfix/sendmail[2178]: fatal: unsupported: -bH

Any thoughts?