From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 26 10:16:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BAEA14D78 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:15:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.1.2] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 118oFc-0000yZ-00; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:09:20 +0100 (envelope-from ben@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (ident=ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 3.02 #1) id 118oFX-0000dN-00; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:09:15 +0100 (envelope-from ben@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:09:15 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: "John J. Fox IV" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing MTAs Message-ID: <19990726180915.A2401@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message