Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:32:17 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "S.N.Grigoriev" <serguey-grigoriev@yandex.ru> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail replacement Message-ID: <4B4DAF41.5090903@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <661263379937@webmail51.yandex.ru>
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S.N.Grigoriev wrote:
> I would like to know if there is a way to completely
> replace the base sendmail with a ports one. The goal
> is to have corresponding files on the traditional places
> (not in /usr/local) and to use the system sendmail
> startup script but not /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sendmail.sh.
That's not the usual approach with sendmail, unlike several other software packages.
Because of the existence of mailer.conf(5) you can achieve equivalent
functionality without overwriting the base system sendmail. With the
following contents:
% cat /etc/mail/mailer.conf
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/mail/mailer.conf,v 1.3.36.1 2009/08/03 08:13:06 kensmith Exp $
#
# Execute the "real" sendmail program, named /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
#
sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
hoststat /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
purgestat /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
all sendmail related commands are mapped onto the ports version of sendmail,
installed under LOCALBASE=/usr/local as usual. These commands are in fact
exactly the same wrapper scripts as used with the system sendmail. With this
setup it is not necessary to use the init script provided by the sendmail port:
simply adding
sendmail_enable="YES"
to /etc/rc.conf will now cause the ports version of sendmail to be started
using /etc/rc.d/sendmail. In addition, the following entries in /etc/make.conf
will allow rebuild sendmail configurations and db maps using the Makefile in
/etc/mail:
WITH_SENDMAIL_PORT= yes
SENDMAIL_CF_DIR= /usr/local/share/sendmail/cf
MAKEMAP= /usr/local/sbin/makemap
Finally, adding
WITHOUT_SENDMAIL=yes
to /etc/src.conf will suppress building sendmail as part of the base system,
while still building and installing the mailwrapper commands.
Cheers,
Matthew
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