On October 24, 2007 at 09:50PM jekillen wrote:
> The following was a response to a query I posted regarding how to > switch over to Postfix from SendMail: > > 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" > > However, there is no periodic.conf on my system: > v6.2. There is a periodic directory with specific > subdirectories. One is 'daily' but I do not know > which one would have the above entries. Create the /etc/periodic.conf file and populate it with the correct information. > When I installed the OS, I had it include the > Postfix package when sysinstall queried for > package choices. > I want to set this machine up as a hub mail server > for four web sites on four separate machines that > are connected via inside network. I have not dealt > with e-mail related software in general and Postfix > or Sendmail specifically. Since I brought in Postfix > as a package, I am afraid of trying to install it from > Ports for complications, unless ports will account > for that. You could delete the package and then install it from ports. > There were also advices to place several entries > in rc.conf to disable SendMail. There are no entries > either for SendMail, not Postfix there to begin with > in rc.conf. You have to add them. Please read /usr/ports/mail/postfix/pkg-message for further details. That is the last stable version of Postfix, by the way. The beta version is under 'postix-current'. You should also check out: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-changingmta.html for further details. > > In mailer.conf I was told it 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 > > There were two other entries, hoststat and > purgstat. Should these be kept, modified > or eliminated? > If you install Postfix from the ports system, it will offer to make these modifications for you. See my above comment. -- Gerard _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
