From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 2 23:39:55 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48E0516A417 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:39:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@philip.pjkh.com) Received: from bravo.pjkh.com (bravo.pjkh.com [72.36.232.219]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D5CA13C480 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:39:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@philip.pjkh.com) Received: from bravo.pjkh.com (bravo.pjkh.com [72.36.232.219]) by bravo.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9417613C7BD; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:56:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by bravo.pjkh.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7824113C7BC; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:56:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bravo.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7520A13C404; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:56:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:56:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: jekillen In-Reply-To: <7d01f02b6ddc1b1ff9c710db3f699dbd@prodigy.net> Message-ID: <20071002185519.M8934@bravo.pjkh.com> References: <33ab8f5a4dac86879f81a1c39d757b08@prodigy.net> <4701B3D3.5050505@gracenpeace.net> <7d01f02b6ddc1b1ff9c710db3f699dbd@prodigy.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List , Joe in MPLS Subject: Re: question about Postfix X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:39:55 -0000 >>> 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 >> >> The package install of postfix does nothing to sendmail. It's not like the >> MTA switch utility found in some linux distros. Just turn off the various >> bits of sendmail in /etc/rc.conf and start postfix. >> >> Postfix does include an executable named "sendmail" that directly replaces >> some of the "old" sendmail capability. > > This is what is confusing me some. I have a text from SAMS on Postfix and it > talks about renaming several > sendmail related files and removing the suid permissions on them. Because > both Sendmail and Postfix are > extensive systems, getting all the cogs and gears together looks like a real > challenge to me. It's easy. If you install using the port it will ask you what you'd like to do. Typically you'd tell it to use mailer.conf to use postfix instead of sendmail and leave it at that. man mailer.conf for more info, but the port will take care of it for you (or at least tell you what to do, it's been awhile since I set it up)