From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 17:14:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD98A37B406 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:14:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 51074 invoked by uid 100); 22 Jun 2001 00:14:15 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15154.36310.996277.72149@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:14:14 -0500 To: Andrew Reid Cc: Mike Meyer , Patrick O'Reilly , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postfix??? 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> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Reid 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. 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