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Date:      Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:11:22 -0400
From:      "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
To:        "FBSDQ" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   rc.sendmail new in Release 4.6
Message-ID:  <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGMEFICDAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>

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FBSD release 4.6 has updated the built in sendmail to version 8.12.3.
The release notes say.

2.3.1.1 Sendmail
sendmail has been updated to 8.12.3. sendmail(8) is no longer installed as a
set-user-ID root binary (now set-group-ID smmsp). See
/usr/src/contrib/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES and /etc/mail/README for more
information.
With this sendmail upgrade, multiple sendmail daemons (some required to
handle outgoing mail) are started by rc(8), even if the sendmail_enable
variable is set to NO. To completely disable sendmail, sendmail_enable must
be set to NONE. Alternatively, for systems using a different MTA, the
mta_start_script variable can be used to point to a different startup script
(more details can be found in rc.sendmail(8)).
The permissions for sendmail alias and map databases built via
/etc/mail/Makefile now default to mode 0640 to protect against a file
locking local denial of service. It can be changed by setting the new
SENDMAIL_MAP_PERMS make.conf option.
The permissions for the sendmail statistics file, /var/log/sendmail.st, have
been changed from mode 0644 to mode 0640 to protect against a file locking
local denial of service.

I installed a virgin FBSD 4.6 from mimi-cdrom and then restored my backup up
custom config files on top of it. I also installed the packages of the ports
I regularly use from an backup of the packages files I saved. One of those
is postfix. Postfix uses the sendmail wrapper to launch, (IE
/etc/mail/mailer.conf).
When I boot 4.6  I get these log messages
Starting standard daemons: inedt cron sendmail
Sendmail-clientmqueuesendmail: Illegal option -A
Sendmail: Fatal: Usage: sendmail[options]
Postfix/sendmail[180]:Fatal: Usage: sendmail[options]
Postfix/postfix-script: starting postfix mail system

I can send and receive mail so postfix must be running ok.
So my questions are,
What am I to do to get rid of the boot sendmail messages?
Do I still need to use the old sendmail wrapper
/etc/mail/mailer.conf for postfix?
What is the correct to launch postfix under FBSD 4.6?






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