From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 21:46:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kraeusen.nbrewer.com (unknown [208.42.68.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F64937B400 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:46:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by kraeusen.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D4C5717429; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 23:46:27 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kraeusen.nbrewer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C683E22E33 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 23:46:27 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 23:46:27 -0600 (CST) From: Christopher Farley X-Sender: chris@kraeusen.nbrewer.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Postfix vs. Sendmail Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Today I started tracking FreeBSD-STABLE (from 4.0-RELEASE). After it was all said an done, my sendmail 8.10.1 installation was trashed, despite having the NO_SENDMAIL flag set to "true" in /etc/make.conf. After telnetting to freebsd.org 25 and seeing that freebsd.org ran Postfix (as well as my service provider, and several other sites I respect), I installed Postfix from the ports collection. An hour later, I now have a sendmail-free system. And I didn't even have to 'compile' a .cf file. My question is: how can I prevent "make world" from trashing my Postfix installation in the future? I needed to make some symlinks from /usr/sbin/sendmail --> /usr/local/sbin/sendmail, etc. Why doesn't the standard FreeBSD distribution come with Postfix (very easy to configure, doesn't run as root) instead of Sendmail? ---- Christopher Farley Northern Brewer / 1150 Grand Avenue / St. Paul, MN 55105 www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message