Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:09:15 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: "John J. Fox IV" <jfox@wizzards.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing MTAs Message-ID: <19990726180915.A2401@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9907251316110.24302-100000@mail.wizzards.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9907251316110.24302-100000@mail.wizzards.net>
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John J. Fox IV wrote:
> 1) What suggestions are there as to which MTA to use? I am leaning towards
> exim or postfix right now, but I'd appreciate advice from those who have
> already been where I'm going.
I'm using Exim on a dialup system, with no problem. I have a static IP
address though, and my own sub-domain under demon.co.uk, so I don't need
as much address rewriting. Exim should be able to cope, though, with
suitable rewriting rules.
> 2) What is the cleanest way to remove sendmail from my system? It isn't in
> the list generated by 'pkg_info', so I assume that 'pkg_delete' is not an
> option. :)
Just delete /usr/sbin/sendmail, /usr/bin/mailq and /usr/bin/newaliases,
and make those files symbolic links to the Exim binary after you install
that (if you choose Exim), which will probably be /usr/local/sbin/exim.
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