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To: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
Cc: rene@xs4all.nl, "FBSDQ" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: postfix not accepting SMTP connections 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 08 Mar 2002 09:58:48 EST."
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Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 13:07:00 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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> From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 09:58:48 -0500
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> This is your problem
> 
> $ grep sendmail /etc/rc.conf
> sendmail_enable="YES"
> 
> Change that to  sendmail_enable="NO"
> 
> And reboot your system.
> 
> Sendmail is the default core FBSD mail system. Since rc.conf options get
> started before user installed ports you have a conflict when later you start
> postfix. Postfix ends up being left out in the cold because the SMTP
> services are already active.

No. sendmail_enable="YES" will start the currently configured MTA, be
it postfix, sendmail, qmail, or some other that mailwrapper handles.

What is required is that mailer.conf be changed to point at
postfix. This is normally done by responding to the query from the
installation script that asks if you want postfix to replace sendmail
as the MTA. 'make replace' is no longer in use.

/etc/mail/mailer.conf should contain:
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/mail/mailer.conf,v 1.2 1999/12/29 18:24:06 peter Exp $
#
# Execute the Postfix sendmail program, named /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
#
sendmail        /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
send-mail       /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
mailq           /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
newaliases      /usr/local/sbin/sendmail


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