Mail not working [SOLVED]

[Matthew Seaman]

Dimitri Yioulos wrote:

> I can't believe it.  After all this time hacking away, I solved my issue rather easily.
>  I made sure sendmail was turned off, then deinstalled/reinstalled postfix-current from
> ports.  I had to tweak some directives in mailer.conf and main.cf based on a couple of
> posts I googled.  I made sure sendmail wouldn't start, then started postfix with
> "/etc/rc.d/sendmail onestart" (Q: why is postfix invoked by starting sendmail?).  Was
> able to send mail locally and externally through MTA.

It isn't usually.  I guess it only works because mailer.conf says the real sendmail
binary is the one installed by postfix.

The usual arrangement is to turn off sendmail and enable postfix from /etc/rc.conf
by the following:

sendmail_enable="NO"
sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"

postfix_enable="YES"

Then you should be able to start postfix by:

   # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postfix start

although you'll have to make sure the instance you started as a pseudo-sendmail is
killed first.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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