Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:23:25 -0700 From: jekillen <jekillen@prodigy.net> To: Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: question about Postfix Message-ID: <3ff5b31f5872233a810207eab593b208@prodigy.net> In-Reply-To: <20071002025649.K56027@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> References: <33ab8f5a4dac86879f81a1c39d757b08@prodigy.net> <20071002025649.K56027@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com>
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On Oct 1, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Duane Hill wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 at 19:50 -0700, jekillen@prodigy.net confabulated: > >> Hello; >> I have a quick question about Postfix. >> When I install Free BSD and have it >> include Postfix from packages, does >> the install process completely replace >> Sendmail with Postfix, or do I still have >> to replace Sendmail with Postfix separately? >> Thanks in advance >> Jeff K > > If you install Postfix from the ports collection: > > /usr/ports/mail/postfix > > toward the end of the install process, it will ask you if you wish for > the install to make changes in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. You tell it yes. > If it did not ask, /etc/mail/mailer.conf should look like this: > > sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > > This is what so-to-speak "plugs" Postfix into the OS. > > To totally disable SendMail from running at startup after a reboot, > you have to make some additions to the /etc/rc.conf config file. > Namely, you have to add: > > sendmail_enable="NO" > sendmail_submit_enable="NO" > sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" > sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" > > Also, there are some periodic things that are ran which are SendMail > specific that need to be disabled. That is done within > /etc/periodic.conf as such: > > daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO" > daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" > daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO" > daily_submit_queuerun="NO" > > O.K. This is something I have not been aware of. As far as MTA's on any system I am somewhat of a newbe. I do get regular e-mails to the root accounts of my various (four) systems when they are running constantly, (two are) and I have been wondering how a switch over will effect that. I will need to do a system specific configuration of postfix and define system specific aliases, prevent public use of the servers for open relaying and such. So I expect for a first timer I have my work cut out for me. Thanks for the info, much appreciated. Jeff K (I'm not looking to spam anyone)
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