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I forgot to mention this, I did that first, than ran /bin/sh
/etc/rc.sendmail stop
Postfix appears to run, yet does not repsond...

On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 16:34, fbsd_user wrote:
> You missed the most obvious point. The basic FBSD install is
> delivered with sendmail active. To get postfix to be the active mail
> server you have to disable sendmail and reboot FBSD.
> 
> ADD this statement to your rc.conf file
> 
> sendmail_enable="NONE"          # Totally disable sendmail, allowing
> Postfix
>                                 # to become the primary MTA.
>                                                                 #
> (Mail transport agent)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Guy Van
> Sanden
> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 10:08 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Postfix problems
> 
> I tried to install postfix on my system (FreeBSD 5.0).
> It compiles and installs fine (from ports), but it does not seem to
> work.
> 
> nc host 25 gives a connection, but nothing else
> Sending mail completely fails.
> 
> Am I missing something?
> Is there a sendmail to postfix migration howto or something?
> Googling did not provide me mucht helpful information.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Guy
> 
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