From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 6:34:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vatican.rh.rit.edu (res142a-008.rh.rit.edu [129.21.142.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 241F837B400 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 06:34:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by vatican.rh.rit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id ADC3A7BED1; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 09:19:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 09:19:24 -0500 From: Michael Dungan To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail Message-ID: <20001202091924.A65973@rit.edu> Reply-To: mpd6334@cs.rit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from chris@northernbrewer.com on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:46:27PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For what it's worth, I have had this exact same problem for over 6 months, but it never bothered me enough to write into the list. NO_SENDMAIL=true has been uncommented in make.conf the whole time, yet every time I re-make the the world, sendmail (whichever version is included in the newly re-made world) clobbers postfix (even as recently as about 10 days ago.) My only solace is the fact that I can set up postfix in <10 minutes now, including compile time. I guess practice made perfect. (using 4-STABLE the whole time) has anyone had this problem and was actually able to fix it? (again, NO_SENDMAIL=true ain't doing the job.) mike On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:46:27PM -0600, Christopher Farley wrote: > Today I started tracking FreeBSD-STABLE (from 4.0-RELEASE). After it was > all said an done, my sendmail 8.10.1 installation was trashed, > despite having the NO_SENDMAIL flag set to "true" in /etc/make.conf. > > After telnetting to freebsd.org 25 and seeing that freebsd.org ran > Postfix (as well as my service provider, and several other sites I > respect), I installed Postfix from the ports collection. An hour later, > I now have a sendmail-free system. And I didn't even have to 'compile' a > .cf file. > > My question is: how can I prevent "make world" from trashing my Postfix > installation in the future? I needed to make some symlinks from > /usr/sbin/sendmail --> /usr/local/sbin/sendmail, etc. > > Why doesn't the standard FreeBSD distribution come with Postfix > (very easy to configure, doesn't run as root) instead of Sendmail? > > ---- > 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