From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 8 17:37:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hun.org (hun.org [216.190.28.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F17F337B502 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 17:37:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by hun.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A75DA1C2AB; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 00:37:30 +0000 (GMT) From: attila! X-Organization: hun.org, over 40 years beyond the fringe home for unpenitent hackers and anarcho-cryptophreaks X-Die-Spammers: Spammers cheerfully broiled and served with Stubbs's "Inferno" Wicked Chicken Wing Sauce X-Mailer: FreeBSD 5.0-20000925 with XEmacs V21.1.10 (see alt.religion.emacs) X-Ballistic: N 37.218497 W 113.614979 In-Reply-To: <20001008114647.A7756@dataloss.net> References: <20001008070212.04A381C2AB@hun.org> To: Peter van Dijk Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: POSTFIX-- Wietse: tweak and go! --pkg & port: both duds Message-Id: <20001009003730.A75DA1C2AB@hun.org> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 00:37:30 +0000 (GMT) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- on Sun, 8 Oct 2000 11:46:47 +0200, Peter van Dijk said: > Actually, mailwrapper (I don't know about this mailcap thing, > I'm only running STABLE right now for lack of machines) does > this job. Have you looked at /etc/mail/mailer.conf? The sendmail > binary in /usr/sbin has no relation to sendmail - it's the > mailwrapper, which is a good concept. What needs to be considered, in maintaining postfix for the 'conventional' interface of sendmail (as of 8.10) is: /usr/bin/mailq -> /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/bin/newaliases -> /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper and, given that Wietse's /usr/bin/sendmail does essentially the same thing as sendmail's /usr/sbin/mailwrapper except that it is based on the declarations in /etc/postfix/main.cf rather than /etc/mail/mailer.conf, it seems the probable 'sane' solution is to install Wietse's 'sendmail' as /usr/sbin/postmail (which I have done) and use the soft links: /usr/bin/mailq -> /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/bin/newaliases -> /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/sbin/postmail which I have now done on my network. Then, if 'installworld' tramples /usr/sbin/sendmail, it only means changing the symbolic link; meanwhile, no-one needs to put the intermediate spooler in that I use (unless they want to play double safe). Secondly, I am quite comfortable with postfix, having ported it in for about 18 months --not as long as Brad Knowles, but long enough. Wietse writes good, clean, and organized code! I plan to communicate same to Wietse along with the patch file for 'src/util/sys_defs.h' and see what happens; it's his program. > Otherwise, nice to see such a howto. Thank you; I will refine it out, plus get it ready for inclusion in the /usr/src/contrib tree if so permitted. I am a firm believer in KISS for the unwashed, and will therefore establish the initial configuration with defaults to eliminate the questions in the install script. I am perfectly well willing to maintain it in cvs format. attila out... -- M$ -Where do you want to go today? Linux -Where do you want to go tomorrow? Freebsd -Are you guys coming or what? If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above, ask your parents or an adult to help you. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 Comment: No safety this side of the grave; never was, never will be iQBFAwUBOeES3q/ciqw+xvOFAQETBAF/Y8nGb60iopT70u4XU1NdTUWuGYw3SNBi ADOM5A/d83mcS7+CQkg+RrvvMTSXoZiH =d3yh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message