Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:33:21 +0100 From: Kjell Midtseter <junkmail@sensewave.com> To: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: postfix launch at system startup Message-ID: <20041118193321.GC3110@tyven.la3sg.net> In-Reply-To: <200411181008.51942.algould@datawok.com> References: <20041118023638.GA899@keyslapper.org> <20041118143150.GA3110@tyven.la3sg.net> <20041118154656.GC95896@keyslapper.org> <200411181008.51942.algould@datawok.com>
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On Thursday, 18 November 2004 at 10:08:51 -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Thursday 18 November 2004 09:46 am, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > On 11/18/04 03:31 PM, Kjell Midtseter sat at the `puter and typed: > > > When I later went through a cvsup/portupgrade sequence, I had to > > > answer "YES" to the question > > > "Would you like to activate Postfix in /etc/mail/mailer.conf [n]?" > > > If you answer "No" you will revert to sendmail. > > > Kjell > > > > I answered yes. Always do. > > > > Lou > > Answering yes results in changes /etc/mail/mailer.conf so that calls to > certain email executables will be mapped to postfix rather than > sendmail. I am (fairly) certain that it does _not_ make the necessary > changes to ensure that: > > 1) sendmail is not started at bootup > 2) postfix is started at bootup > 3) sendmail is not compiled during the next "make buildworld" I agree. But according to this part that has been 'snipper out' > At install, I specified postfix as the mta, and had it configured in > /etc/mail/mailer.conf. The /stand/sysinstall shell also added the > following to /etc/rc.conf: The three points should have been taken care of then Kjell > Andrew Gould
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