Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:02:22 -0700 From: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> To: FreeBSD <questions@freebsd.org> Cc: gv-list-freebsdquestions@mygirlfriday.info Subject: Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server Message-ID: <20030930090222.72211682.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <1950000.1064935241@[192.168.0.5]> References: <20030930150817.6422.qmail@web10002.mail.yahoo.com> <1950000.1064935241@[192.168.0.5]>
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:20:41 -0500 Gary <gv-list-freebsdquestions@mygirlfriday.info> wrote: > Hi Naveen, > > --On Tuesday, September 30, 2003 08:08:17 AM -0700 Naveen Glore > <freebsdsl1@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > I understand that qmail is very secured than sendmail. Since these > > two are completly different from each other, is it difficult to > > change from sendmail to qmail? i would really appreciate if you > > could tell me where i can find proper documentation for it. I need > > documentation which explains how to change sendmail MTA to qmail. > > All the info you will ever need is at www.lifewithqmail.org ...except for some FreeBSD-specific info :) Here are some tips: 1) FreeBSD uses a "MTA wrapper" which makes your mailer *look* like sendmail, regardless of what your mailer actually is. This wrapper is located at /etc/mail/mailer.conf. Mine looks like: sendmail /var/qmail/bin/sendmail send-mail /var/qmail/bin/sendmail mailq /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread newaliases /var/qmail/bin/newaliases This makes setting up non-sendmail mailers quite a bit easier. IIRC the PORT_NOTES file in the qmail port has more information about this. 2) Use sendmail_enable="NONE" in your rc.conf file to completely disable sendmail, once you have qmail up and running. 3) Don't worry about ucspi-tcp and daemontools to start out with - qmail will work with inetd, it will just run nicer with ucspi-tcp and daemontools. So you can migrate to those tools after you become comfortable with qmail - you don't have to do it all at once. HTH, and good luck. -Chris
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