From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 21:01:03 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 537ED16A401 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:01:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from mailout.zetnet.co.uk (mailout.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.47.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14C2913C45D for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:01:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from irwell.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.47.48] helo=zetnet.co.uk) by mailout.zetnet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HbMTg-0004KE-Ns for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:58:08 +0100 Received: from esperance.zetnet.co.uk (54-144.adsl.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.54.144]) by zetnet.co.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with SMTP id l3AJw72R024421 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:58:08 +0100 Received: (qmail 86404 invoked by uid 1001); 10 Apr 2007 19:58:02 -0000 From: "Frank Shute" Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:58:02 +0100 To: Kurt Buff Message-ID: <20070410195802.GA86310@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p1 i386 X-Organisation: 'Esperance Linux' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (zetnet.co.uk [194.247.46.1]); Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:58:08 +0100 (BST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail and system-generated events X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:01:03 -0000 On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 04:37:15PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: > > Hate replying to myself, but I seem to have come up with a workaround. > I hope it's actually a good fix. > > As part of my efforts earlier (deinstall and reinstall postfix) I also > searched for and rm'ed all of the sendmail binaries I could find, > before the reinstall. > > That broke it in a 'better' way, for some value of better: > > atrun[1032]: exec failed for mail command: No such file or directory > > I went looking at my other FreeBSD boxes, and found this: > > tophat# ll /usr/sbin/sendmail > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 21 Nov 22 2005 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> > /usr/sbin/mailwrapper > > This was missing on my problem system, so I put in the link per the > above, and all now seems quite happy. > > Someone then pointed me at 'man mailwrapper'. > > Still doesn't tell me how I botched it, but it surely does tell me > that I fixed it. > > Kurt > As well as mailwrapper(8) you want to have a look at mailer.conf(5) where there is an example for postfix. Also read this page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-changingmta.html -- Frank echo "f r a n k @ e s p e r a n c e - l i n u x . c o . u k" | sed 's/ //g' --->PGP keyID: 0x10BD6F4B<---