Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 17:06:46 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>, Peter <peterk@americanisp.net>, Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail Message-ID: <14888.12038.601774.446919@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <10999003@toto.iv>
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Peter <peterk@americanisp.net> types:
> 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?
FreeBSD has solved this problem for any MTA that provides a sendmail
command API. You edit /etc/mail/mailer.conf so it points at that MTAs
version of sendmail (and mailq, and newaliases, for that matter), and
the binaries installed where programs look for
sendmail/mailq/newaliases will do the right thing.
> And just a survey for myself, what does everyone use? and why?
Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> types:
> Postfix, because it took less than an hour to build, install, and
> configure.
That's pretty much why I use qmail. Of course, postfix wasn't out of
beta when I switched.
Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net> types:
> On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, gaurdian gaurdian wrote:
> > Does postfix use the same /var/mail/ scheme as sendmail ?
> It's flexible and can use either mbox or Maildir format.
I think you answered the wrong question (but I don't have the answer
to the right one). Qmail puts binaries, man pages, etc into
/var/mail. The port claims that it can be installed in ${LOCALBASE}
instead, but I've not been able to convince that to work
properly. This is a different issue from the mailbox format. After
all, qmail can deliver either to a maildir or to a berkeley mbox.
<mike
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