Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3
I did it on a 5.2.1 machine and loaded Exim from the ports tree. That gives full instructions on what to turn off/on in the rc.conf and a little rc script to start exim at boot. What's not working? -- Martin On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:47:15 -0800, comm/JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and seemed to have failed, just wondering if I am using an old and outdated document. Thanks! == -comm rwx.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3
comm/JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and seemed to have failed, just wondering if I am using an old and outdated document. In my experience, it should be pretty straightforward. There are a couple of things which are not done automagically by the port, IIRC - * adding the lines exim_enable=YES sendmail_enable=NONE to /etc/rc.conf * editing /etc/mail/mailer.conf to read something like sendmail /usr/local/sbin/exim send-mail /usr/local/sbin/exim mailq /usr/local/sbin/exim -bp newaliases/usr/bin/true hoststat/usr/local/sbin/sendmail purgestat /usr/local/sbin/sendmail * killing the sendmail daemon and starting exim (use /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim.sh start to start exim) There may be a few other things you need to do, but the port tends to remind you of such things along the way. Running the install from a script(1) session is useful too, just in case useful messages scroll off the top of the screen too quickly. The port also supplies nice and straightforward instructions to add spam and virus filtering to the delivery process. Nice for those of us serving Microsoft desktops. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ First, we kill all the spammers The Usenet Bard, Twice-forwarded tales ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3
On 24 Dec 2004 11:33:53 +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: comm/JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and seemed to have failed, just wondering if I am using an old and outdated document. In my experience, it should be pretty straightforward. There are a couple of things which are not done automagically by the port, IIRC - * adding the lines exim_enable=YES sendmail_enable=NONE to /etc/rc.conf Although this is deprecated. Please use the following rather than sendmail_enable=NONE: sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:31:40AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: comm/JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and seemed to have failed, just wondering if I am using an old and outdated document. snip Although this is deprecated. Please use the following rather than sendmail_enable=NONE: sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO Where do you see this: sendmail_enable=NONE labelled as deprecated? That doesn't appear to be the case, in the documentation I have accessed. To the OP: the query you make is an FAQ, and the basic answers are in the Exim documentation, with a specific section on FreeBSD. You can find the answers by installing the HTML docs via the port, or at exim.org. Do you have the docs for exim installed on your local machine? The two questions you will likely need are 9201 and 9202, as well as the handbook documentation telling you how to change your MTA. That is in chapter 22. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:17:57 -0500, Joe Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:31:40AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: comm/JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and seemed to have failed, just wondering if I am using an old and outdated document. snip Although this is deprecated. Please use the following rather than sendmail_enable=NONE: sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO Where do you see this: sendmail_enable=NONE labelled as deprecated? That doesn't appear to be the case, in the documentation I have accessed. I 'see this' in man rc.sendmail(8): sendmail_enable (str) If set to ``YES'', run the sendmail(8) daemon at system boot time. If set to ``NO'', do not run a sendmail(8) daemon to listen for incoming network mail. This does not preclude a sendmail(8) daemon listening on the SMTP port of the loopback interface. The ``NONE'' option is deprecated and should not be used. It will be removed in a future release. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:31:37PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:17:57 -0500, Joe Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:31:40AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: comm/JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and seemed to have failed, just wondering if I am using an old and outdated document. snip Although this is deprecated. Please use the following rather than sendmail_enable=NONE: sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO Where do you see this: sendmail_enable=NONE labelled as deprecated? That doesn't appear to be the case, in the documentation I have accessed. I 'see this' in man rc.sendmail(8): sendmail_enable (str) If set to ``YES'', run the sendmail(8) daemon at system boot time. If set to ``NO'', do not run a sendmail(8) daemon to listen for incoming network mail. This does not preclude a sendmail(8) daemon listening on the SMTP port of the loopback interface. The ``NONE'' option is deprecated and should not be used. It will be removed in a future release. You mean this man rc.sendmail? RC.SENDMAIL(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual NAME rc.sendmail -- sendmail(8) startup script DESCRIPTION The rc.sendmail script is used by /etc/rc at boot time to start sendmail(8). It is meant to be sendmail(8) specific and not a generic script for all MTAs. Contrast with the handbook entry, for changing the MTA for a given machine: 22.4 Changing Your Mail Transfer Agent 22.4.4 Replacing sendmail as the System's Default Mailer Which addresses the OPs original request, I think: ...some documentation to fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I don't interpret the NONE directive as deprecated, for the mailer.conf wrapper, which is what should be used to ...fully move... from sendmail to Exim, AFAICT. man mailer.conf and man mailwrapper. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:05:30 -0500, Joe Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:31:37PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:17:57 -0500, Joe Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:31:40AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: comm/JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and seemed to have failed, just wondering if I am using an old and outdated document. snip Although this is deprecated. Please use the following rather than sendmail_enable=NONE: sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO Where do you see this: sendmail_enable=NONE labelled as deprecated? That doesn't appear to be the case, in the documentation I have accessed. I 'see this' in man rc.sendmail(8): sendmail_enable (str) If set to ``YES'', run the sendmail(8) daemon at system boot time. If set to ``NO'', do not run a sendmail(8) daemon to listen for incoming network mail. This does not preclude a sendmail(8) daemon listening on the SMTP port of the loopback interface. The ``NONE'' option is deprecated and should not be used. It will be removed in a future release. You mean this man rc.sendmail? RC.SENDMAIL(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual Yes, man rc.sendmail(8). I guess I'm really not sure what your malfunction is, Joe. What do you not understand about 'deprecated' and 'will be removed in a future release'? BTW, I really don't care to discuss it any further; if you have any additional information for the OP, by all means, give it. Otherwise, have a happy holiday, and drop it. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 01:11:31PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: I guess I'm really not sure what your malfunction is, Joe. What do you not understand about 'deprecated' and 'will be removed in a future release'? BTW, I really don't care to discuss it any further; if you have any additional information for the OP, by all means, give it. Otherwise, have a happy holiday, and drop it. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/mailing-list-faq/article.html#ETIQUETTE 2 Mailing List Etiquette 2.2. What constitutes an inappropriate posting? Personal attacks are discouraged. As good net.citizens, we should try to hold ourselves to high standards of behavior. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using Exim with FBSD 5.3
Hello, Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and seemed to have failed, just wondering if I am using an old and outdated document. Thanks! == -comm rwx.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
