From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 2 16:17:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F1F137B401 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 16:17:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3216E43FAF for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 16:17:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h330HQ21076283; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 09:47:28 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Don , Dan Naumov Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 09:47:25 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030402185311.599cb0d3.dan.naumov@ofw.fi> <20030402105556.Y98713@calis.blacksun.org> In-Reply-To: <20030402105556.Y98713@calis.blacksun.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304030947.25940.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.1 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02,TO_LOCALPART_EQ_REAL,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing Sendmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 00:17:43 -0000 On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 01:29, Don wrote: > Seriously though, I _always_ replace sendmail with postfix and I have > never had a problem doing so. Other than one or two really trivial > anyway. > > What problems do people run into when replacing sendmail? How many of > those problems come as a result of not reading the install messages for > the particular port? I think the worse problem is when you have to update the base sendmail with the ports version.. Come next installworld + mergemaster things can get pretty hairy as you try and decide which version to continue using, and if you change how to revert so the base system still does what you want etc.. It can be quite annoying to deal with :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5