Replacing Sendmail with Postfix?

Paul Schmehl pauls at utdallas.edu
Wed May 31 20:08:04 PDT 2006


--On May 31, 2006 8:58:08 PM -0500 Nikolas Britton 
<nikolas.britton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey did anyone see the article on /. about Sendmail being removed from
> NetBSD, and being replaced with Postfix?
>
> What advice can you offer about doing this on FreeBSD? What's
> involved, How do you do it, are there any gotta's (cron scripts?),
> etc?.... Is it just as simple as installing the Postfix port? How do
> you stop buildworld from reinstalling sendmail? /etc/mail/mailer.conf?
>
> Oh hmm, I see there's a section in the FreeBSD handbook that deals
> with this topic... Oh well I've already wrote this much... maybe you
> guy and gals have something more to add.
>
make install clean - follow the instructions in the pkg-message file - 
done.  (Except for any configuration you need to do.  If it's a standalone 
server to send mail from localhost, you don't need to do anything to get it 
working.)

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/


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