FreeBSD-Update + Sendmail

[Panagiotis Christias]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 10:43:49PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 06/08/2013 22:28, Thomas Laus wrote:
> > I like the 'sendmail from ports' suggestion a little better.  Going this 
> > route, I only need to make configuration changes to /etc/mail/mailer.conf 
> > once.  All subsequent freebsd-update operations won't require rebuilding 
> > sendmail and it's tools.  Any updates to the port version are covered by the 
> > normal port update system.  Future updates to the port version only require a 
> > 'make restart' in the /etc/mail directory after reviewing my .mc file for any 
> > affected changes.
> 
> If you're using the ports version of sendmail, a handy tip is to add
> this to /etc/make.conf:
> 
> SENDMAIL_CF_DIR=        /usr/local/share/sendmail/cf
> MAKEMAP=                /usr/local/sbin/makemap
> 
> so you use a version of the sendmail M4 config bits that matches the
> sendmail binary you're running, and you can use /etc/mail/Makefile to
> generate and install the configs exactly as if you were using the base
> system sendmail.


Indeed, plus:

  SENDMAIL=/usr/local/sbin/sendmail

And in /etc/rc.conf:

  sendmail_program="/usr/local/sbin/sendmail"

Regards,
Panagiotis

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Panagiotis J. Christias    Network Management Center
P.Christias at noc.ntua.gr    National Technical Univ. of Athens, GREECE