From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 14:12: 3 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 9FA4937B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 14:12:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by kraeusen.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 174F917417; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 16:12:01 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kraeusen.nbrewer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 041E722E14; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 16:12:00 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 16:12:00 -0600 (CST) From: Christopher Farley X-Sender: chris@kraeusen.nbrewer.com To: Peter Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail In-Reply-To: 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, Peter wrote: > While we are on the subject of sendmail, what if I do not have that > installed but I have some programs [ie crond] that use sendmail by > default, can I just make a link from sendmail to say qmail/postfix? Or > would that still mess up/confuse the program? I can't speak for qmail, but Postfix has its own sendmail binary which it installs in /usr/local/sbin. If that's in your path, just rename the old sendmail binary to something like sendmail.OLD. Same with mailq and newaliases. > And just a survey for myself, what does everyone use? and why? Postfix, because it took less than an hour to build, install, and configure. ---- 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