On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 at 16:23 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated:
On Oct 1, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Duane Hill wrote:
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 at 19:50 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated:
Hello;
I have a quick question about Postfix.
When I install Free BSD and have it
include Postfix from packages, does
the install process completely replace
Sendmail with Postfix, or do I still have
to replace Sendmail with Postfix separately?
Thanks in advance
Jeff K
If you install Postfix from the ports collection:
/usr/ports/mail/postfix
toward the end of the install process, it will ask you if you wish for the
install to make changes in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. You tell it yes. If it
did not ask, /etc/mail/mailer.conf should look like this:
sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
This is what so-to-speak "plugs" Postfix into the OS.
To totally disable SendMail from running at startup after a reboot, you
have to make some additions to the /etc/rc.conf config file. Namely, you
have to add:
sendmail_enable="NO"
sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
Also, there are some periodic things that are ran which are SendMail
specific that need to be disabled. That is done within /etc/periodic.conf
as such:
daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO"
daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO"
daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO"
daily_submit_queuerun="NO"
O.K. This is something I have not been aware of. As far as MTA's on any
system I am somewhat of a newbe. I do get regular e-mails to the root
accounts of my
various (four) systems when they are running constantly, (two are) and I have
been wondering how a switch over will effect that.
I will need to do a system specific configuration of postfix and define
system specific aliases, prevent public use of the servers for open relaying
and such. So I
expect for a first timer I have my work cut out for me.
Thanks for the info, much appreciated.
Jeff K
(I'm not looking to spam anyone)
Postfix can use the existing /etc/aliases file.
As this is getting to be more off-topic from FreeBSD, I would suggest
subscribing to the Postfix mailing list:
http://www.postfix.org/lists.html
and poking around the archives.
Also, the documentation is very well put together:
http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html
You may also want to consider grabbing a copy of "The book of postfix":
http://nostarch.com/frameset.php?startat=postfix_rev
It can be obtained either in paper or electronic format. I have the pdf
sitting on my 'desktop' for a readily available reference. It has helped
me out in answering a vast number of questions I had without the aide of
the mailing list.
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