Mail(1) breaks when contrib/sendmail is replaced with postfix?

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Tue Jul 13 16:50:18 PDT 2004


On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:40:17PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote:

[...]
> I've read the man page and says sendmail, purgestat, etc. are supposed to be
> symlinks to mailwrapper.  In this case, they were discrete files differing
> in size and content from mailwrapper and those installed by postfix.
> 
> I reinstalled usr.bin and usr.sbin from a built world and everything works
> ok now.  Could this have been the work of some trojan?

Did you install postfix via the ports? If you didn't, it's likely your
custom install blatted over some system files.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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