From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 8 21:27:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from longfellow.nbrewer.com (nbrewer.dsl.visi.com [208.42.141.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 633DF37B405 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 21:27:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by longfellow.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 32F8C7EC917; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:27:17 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:27:17 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: Rob B Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I remove sendmail permanently Message-ID: <20011108232714.A18618@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , Rob B , questions@freebsd.org References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011109160420.01f3bec0@pop.ozemail.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011109160420.01f3bec0@pop.ozemail.com.au>; from rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 04:06:09PM +1100 Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rob B (rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au) wrote: > Does anyone have any pointers on how to replace sendmail with Postfix ... > for good? > > I have built and installed Postfix from ports, and run the make && make > install && make replace scripts, but if I upgrade, won't sendmail get > rebuilt and stomp over Postfix? Hint: don't replace the sendmail binaries with postfix binaries, as hinted in the Postfix README's. Use FreeBSD's mailwrapper! If you do a `man mailer.conf`, this will explain FreeBSD's mailwrapper system. For a Postfix installation, I alter /etc/mail/mailer.conf to point to the "Postfix to Sendmail compatibility interface" which is normally installed in /usr/local/sbin/sendmail (rather than the actual sendmail binary in /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail). -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message