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Simon Barner wrote:
>>P.S. I am planning to install postfix through ports. :) 
> 
> 
> Fine :-) The port will do all the FreeBSD specific things for you (some
> are automated, for the others you get detailed instructions which you
> can re-read in either the pkg-message file in the port's directory).

Yes I believe the port does the correct things for you, but changing 
your MTA is also documented in the FreeBSD Handbook.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-changingmta.html

Cheers

Andrew