From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 30 08:59:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ECBF16A4B3; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:59:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from priv-edtnes57.telusplanet.net (defout.telus.net [199.185.220.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F84C43FF2; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:59:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpressey@catseye.mine.nu) Received: from catseye.biscuit.boo ([154.5.84.203]) by priv-edtnes57.telusplanet.netSMTP <20030930155953.UEA29953.priv-edtnes57.telusplanet.net@catseye.biscuit.boo>; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:59:53 -0600 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:02:22 -0700 From: Chris Pressey To: FreeBSD 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]> Organization: Cat's Eye Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: gv-list-freebsdquestions@mygirlfriday.info Subject: Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:59:55 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:59:55 -0000 On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:20:41 -0500 Gary wrote: > Hi Naveen, > > --On Tuesday, September 30, 2003 08:08:17 AM -0700 Naveen Glore > 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