FreeBSD-Update + Sendmail

[Panagiotis Christias]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 04:02:14PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> 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.

Hm, you are right.

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