Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 23:46:27 -0600 (CST) From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Postfix vs. Sendmail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011302334200.6014-100000@kraeusen.nbrewer.com>
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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
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