Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:14:14 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Patrick O'Reilly <patrick@mip.co.za>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postfix??? Message-ID: <15154.36310.996277.72149@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <993167730.13290.3.camel@percible.alfred.cx> References: <15154.27155.210329.267288@guru.mired.org> <993167730.13290.3.camel@percible.alfred.cx>
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Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx> types: > On 21 Jun 2001 16:41:39 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Backwards compatability with sendmail was a postfix goal, so things > > like alias files and mail lists and so on keep working without > > change. This isn't true with qmail, for instance. That makes postfix > > an easier step than qmail. I don't know about exim. > One thing that you've got to watch with Postfix is making sure you > properly replace Sendmail. Otherwise, you'll find you'll get errors when > you send stuff from the local box. I've just linked > /usr/local/sbin/sendmail to /usr/sbin/sendmail which fixed the problem. > That took me several hours and lots of hair-pulling to work out :-) I hate to tell you this, but doing "make replace" in /usr/ports/postfix will do the job for you. On versions of FreeBSD recent enough to support mailwrapper, it creates the correct mailer.conf. Otherwise, it moves all the old binaries out of the way and replaces them with symlinks to the appropriate things from postfix. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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