From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 15: 6:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53BB937B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:06:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 73415 invoked by uid 100); 1 Dec 2000 23:06:46 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14888.12038.601774.446919@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 17:06:46 -0600 (CST) To: Christopher Farley , Peter , Alex Charalabidis Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail In-Reply-To: <10999003@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Message: You should get a better mailer. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter 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 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 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. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message