From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 17: 2: 0 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 1A11937B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 17:01:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by kraeusen.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0D99417416; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 19:01:57 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kraeusen.nbrewer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDA7622E1A; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 19:01:56 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 19:01:56 -0600 (CST) From: Christopher Farley X-Sender: chris@kraeusen.nbrewer.com To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postfix vs. Sendmailkj In-Reply-To: <14888.12038.601774.446919@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: > 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. Ahhhh. When I installed Sendmail by hand, I followed their instructions and installed the sendmail binary in /usr/sbin. I never realized that the sendmail in /usr/sbin is just a symlink to mailwrapper! So the *actual* sendmail binary, in /usr/libexec/sendmail/, remained. I am not sure, but I suspect that 'make world' restores the sendmail-->mailwrapper symlink, regardless of whether 'NO_SENDMAIL' is set in make.conf... This would make sense, since mailwrapper is, in theory, completely unrelated to sendmail. So I've heard people complain about mailwrapper before... Are there any security benefits to using mailwrapper, or is it (as the manpages say) just a convenience for those installing alternative MTAs? As a rule of thumb, should you never mess with /usr/bin or /usr/sbin? ---- 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