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On 12/4/2014 2:27 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 08:42:59AM -0800, David Benfell wrote:
>>
>> I found a problem when, in desperation, I recompiled the port.
>>
>> There, it says that the pkg assumes sendmail: I use postfix.
>>
> For most of hte questions here, I'm a linux user so I do not have
> useful detail.  But for this one: Postfix provides a sendmail
> program, although it might not install it in the same directory as
> the real sendmail (I do not remember).

It will, it's why it has a conflict with mail/sendmail* and others. 
What David may not have done is activate Postfix's sendmail program for 
mailwrapper (the thing that uses /etc/mail/mailer.conf to point at 
various bits of sendmail).