FreeBSD-Update + Sendmail

[Matthew Seaman]

On 07/08/2013 15:19, Panagiotis Christias wrote:
> 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"

/etc/mail/mailer.conf does that bit for you.

	Cheers,

	Matthew