From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 13:14:40 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 4646137B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 13:14:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by kraeusen.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3362717429; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:14:35 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kraeusen.nbrewer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2921B22E14; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:14:35 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:14:34 -0600 (CST) From: Christopher Farley X-Sender: chris@kraeusen.nbrewer.com To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail In-Reply-To: <14888.3991.163426.571113@guru.mired.org> 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 On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Mike Meyer wrote: > What do you mean by "installation was trashed"? I'm willing to > believe that a jump from 4.0-RELEASE to 4.2-STABLE would involve > changes that would make the binary not work. If so, then your problem > was seeijnt NO_SENDMAIL in the first place. > > If, on the other hand, the configuration files in /etc were trashed, > that's a different matter. Those are *not* built or installed by > buildworld/installworld/world. If you say how you updated the stuff > in /etc, we can diagnose the problem, and tell you what you did wrong, > or finger the bug that caused the problem so it can be fixed. You are correct. The problem is that I set NO_SENDMAIL=true... I installed Sendmail 8.10.1 by hand when I installed FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE. After I cvsupped new sources and did a make world, I was running Sendmail 8.9.3! This confused me, as I assumed that setting NO_SENDMAIL=true would prevent 'make world' from building or installing Sendmail. I thought I could just build a new sendmail.cf and get back up to speed, but m4 wanted to build V9 config files, and Sendmail 8.9.3 only understands V8. Of course, I later remembered that STABLE now has Sendmail 8.11.x, so clearly the NO_SENDMAIL=true was not being ignored. So my current theory is that the Sendmail that was installed was the same Sendmail from the initial 4.0-RELEASE. *Something* in the upgrade trashed Sendmail 8.10.1, and I haven't really been able to figure out what. Anyway, Postfix was *very* easy to install. Probably quicker than restoring Sendmail from tape. ---- 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