Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 11:10:36 -0500 From: "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> To: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Name resolution in FreeBSD/Postfix Message-ID: <5c84d43e-ae94-4659-882f-f37b7a8903ef@quillandmouse.com> In-Reply-To: <CAAdA2WPpoX9-0LdRia76KDeMCZskEpOjqPDCeKoQyryibWggMQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <30b4b3ca-1872-480a-93bb-f0c85908515f@quillandmouse.com> <CAFbbPuhnuoEucbzMJhfmUCFYfZSTXse8dUOJvYxvSEPaX67xyg@mail.gmail.com> <e20685c6-b3d6-4450-b16e-5977b4382b3a@quillandmouse.com> <CAAdA2WPpoX9-0LdRia76KDeMCZskEpOjqPDCeKoQyryibWggMQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/5/24 14:25, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > Contents of /usr/local/etc/mail/mailer.conf: > > === > sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > > > That should be the end of mailer.conf! > > > myhostname = banzai > mydomain = mars.lan > mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost > inet_interfaces = $myhostname, localhost > mynetworks_style = hosts > default_transport = error: outside mail is not deliverable > > > Postfix reads /usr/local/etc/postfix/main.conf and other files in that > directory. You should read more about Postfix. > I doubt it cares about mailer.conf. > Those config params up there should me in main.conf for them to make > sense to Postfix. > Yes, I've found that out. The text at the end of installing postfix only mentioned mailer.conf, so I assumed that was the main config. A little more research, and I found that postfix uses /usr/local/etc/postfix for its configs, not /usr/local/etc/mail. Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster
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