Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 13:50:27 +0800 From: "James Lim" <evilfry@sg.freebsd.org> To: "Christopher Farley" <chris@northernbrewer.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail Message-ID: <000701c05b5a$9cc34100$2e189cca@sleipnir> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011302334200.6014-100000@kraeusen.nbrewer.com>
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Hi there,
You could prevent make world from making ur sendmail files in
/etc/defaults/make.conf
I hope this helps
Regards,
James Lim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Farley" <chris@northernbrewer.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 1:46 PM
Subject: Postfix vs. Sendmail
> Today I started tracking FreeBSD-STABLE (from 4.0-RELEASE). After it was
> all said an done, my sendmail 8.10.1 installation was trashed,
> despite having the NO_SENDMAIL flag set to "true" in /etc/make.conf.
>
> After telnetting to freebsd.org 25 and seeing that freebsd.org ran
> Postfix (as well as my service provider, and several other sites I
> respect), I installed Postfix from the ports collection. An hour later,
> I now have a sendmail-free system. And I didn't even have to 'compile' a
> .cf file.
>
> My question is: how can I prevent "make world" from trashing my Postfix
> installation in the future? I needed to make some symlinks from
> /usr/sbin/sendmail --> /usr/local/sbin/sendmail, etc.
>
> Why doesn't the standard FreeBSD distribution come with Postfix
> (very easy to configure, doesn't run as root) instead of Sendmail?
>
> ----
> Christopher Farley
> Northern Brewer / 1150 Grand Avenue / St. Paul, MN 55105
> www.northernbrewer.com
>
>
>
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