Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

[Chris Pressey]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:29:32 -0500
Gary <gv-list-freebsdquestions at mygirlfriday.info> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:02:22AM -0700 or thereabouts, Chris Pressey
> wrote:
> > ...except for some FreeBSD-specific info :)
> > 
> > Here are some tips:
> > 
> > 1) FreeBSD uses a "MTA wrapper" which makes your mailer *look* like
> > sendmail, regardless of what your mailer actually is.  This wrapper
> > is located at /etc/mail/mailer.conf.  Mine looks like:
> > 
> > sendmail        /var/qmail/bin/sendmail
> > send-mail       /var/qmail/bin/sendmail
> > mailq           /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread
> > newaliases      /var/qmail/bin/newaliases
> 
> Since qmail has a sendmail wrapper to begin with, as noted above, and
> it is put in as a replacement (marking the original to sendmail.old),
> in/usr/lib/sendmail, and /usr/sbin/sendmail why would you need the
> above in mailer.conf?

You don't strictly need it, of course, but I find that FreeBSD's MTA
wrapper is easier to use - it wasn't written just for qmail, and it
doesn't involve directly messing with the sendmail executable.

> > This makes setting up non-sendmail mailers quite a bit easier.  IIRC
> > the PORT_NOTES file in the qmail port has more information about
> > this. 
> 
> Any non-sendmail mailer, I am assuming you mean those which require
> the input of an actual SMTP source, can of course be set for SMTP as
> localhost, 127.0.0.1, or the actual LAN IP address. 

Er - you mean running two different MTA's on different interfaces on the
same machine?  Sure, I guess you could do that, if you wanted... but
I'm just referring to how FreeBSD's MTA wrapper lets you switch between
sendmail, qmail, and any other sendmail-compatible MTA (say, Postfix)
without too much effort.

> BTW, the actual example script  given on lifewithqmail.org for
> creating groups and users for qmail, is for FreeBSD. 

Good to know.

-Chris