Dimitri Yioulos wrote:

I can't believe it.  After all this time hacking away, I solved my issue rather 
easily.
 I made sure sendmail was turned off, then deinstalled/reinstalled 
postfix-current from
ports.  I had to tweak some directives in mailer.conf and main.cf based on a 
couple of
posts I googled.  I made sure sendmail wouldn't start, then started postfix with
"/etc/rc.d/sendmail onestart" (Q: why is postfix invoked by starting 
sendmail?).  Was
able to send mail locally and externally through MTA.

It isn't usually.  I guess it only works because mailer.conf says the real 
sendmail
binary is the one installed by postfix.

The usual arrangement is to turn off sendmail and enable postfix from 
/etc/rc.conf
by the following:

sendmail_enable="NO"
sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"

postfix_enable="YES"

Then you should be able to start postfix by:

  # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postfix start

although you'll have to make sure the instance you started as a pseudo-sendmail 
is
killed first.

        Cheers,

        Matthew

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