From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 11 13:21:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6B2237B405 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 13:21:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 19923 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2001 21:21:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wastegate.net) (209.166.133.87) by smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 11 Nov 2001 21:21:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 16725 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2001 21:21:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO MOTHER) (192.168.1.2) by 192.168.1.1 with SMTP; 11 Nov 2001 21:21:43 -0000 From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Christopher Farley" , "Rob B" Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 16:21:16 -0500 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (5.0.2195;2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: How do I remove sendmail permanently Message-Id: <20011111212148.D6B2237B405@hub.freebsd.org> 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 On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:27:17 -0600, Christopher Farley wrote: >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). I will also note that I run qmail (which is a slight pain in the ass to install/setup), but i installed postfix on my buddy's machine, it is was pretty much a no brainer. --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message