Re: remove sendmail/install postfix

2007-02-07 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Sat, 03.02.2007 at 21:26:36 +0100, Andreas Maus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the mailwraper provides a more generic way for OpenBSD to use mail without dealing much about the uses mail system. (sendmail,postfix,exim,qmail, ...) this is probably correct (or that's what it was created

Re: remove sendmail/install postfix

2007-02-07 Thread Henning Brauer
* Toni Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-07 11:55]: On Sat, 03.02.2007 at 21:26:36 +0100, Andreas Maus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the mailwraper provides a more generic way for OpenBSD to use mail without dealing much about the uses mail system. (sendmail,postfix,exim,qmail, ...) this

Re: remove sendmail/install postfix

2007-02-07 Thread RW
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:49:07 +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: Hi, On Sat, 03.02.2007 at 21:26:36 +0100, Andreas Maus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the mailwraper provides a more generic way for OpenBSD to use mail without dealing much about the uses mail system. (sendmail,postfix,exim,qmail, ...)

Re: remove sendmail/install postfix

2007-02-03 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Thu, 01.02.2007 at 07:56:00 +0100, Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Postfix and Sendmail can both be installed on your disk just fine. I dislike the mailwrapper and instead adjust the link in /usr/sbin/sendmail to point to the real sendmail program. But doing the mailwrapper thing is

Re: remove sendmail/install postfix

2007-02-03 Thread Andreas Maus
On 2/3/07, Toni Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I dislike the mailwrapper and instead adjust the link in /usr/sbin/sendmail to point to the real sendmail program. But doing the mailwrapper thing is probably the safe(r) way to go. I also don't need (nor get) the mailq etc functionality

Re: remove sendmail/install postfix

2007-02-01 Thread Antti Harri
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, John wrote: I think in OpenBSD, that sendmail is tied in rather tightly to the whole OS. I use exim, and the way I ensure that sendmail isn't there is to do: in rc.conf (or rc.conf.local) sendmail_enable=NONE This doesn't do anything. sendmail_flags=NO Only this is

Re: remove sendmail/install postfix

2007-02-01 Thread John
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:45:45AM +0200, Antti Harri wrote: On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, John wrote: I think in OpenBSD, that sendmail is tied in rather tightly to the whole OS. I use exim, and the way I ensure that sendmail isn't there is to do: in rc.conf (or rc.conf.local)

Re: remove sendmail/install postfix

2007-01-31 Thread Lars Hansson
David B. wrote: I know how to install postfix, but how do you completely remove sendmail, since it isn't a package where I can just pkg_delete it? The postfix package has all the information and instructions you'll need. my understanding is that postfix and sendmail aren't friendly on the

Re: remove sendmail/install postfix

2007-01-31 Thread Andreas Maus
On 2/1/07, David B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, hate to bother, but... I looked around on the net and couldn't find a howto on howto uninstall sendmail, the default in 3.8, and then install postfix. You don't need to do this (well at least on OpenBSD). Just install postfix form the ports. It

Re: remove sendmail/install postfix

2007-01-31 Thread John
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:54:04PM -0700, David B. wrote: hi, hate to bother, but... I looked around on the net and couldn't find a howto on howto uninstall sendmail, the default in 3.8, and then install postfix. [snip] I think in OpenBSD, that sendmail is tied in rather tightly to the

Re: remove sendmail/install postfix

2007-01-31 Thread Nico Meijer
Hey David, my understanding is that postfix and sendmail aren't friendly on the same box, and I've found quite a few articles that strongly suggest removing sendmail if you've chosen to use postfix. If it's not in the manpages and not in the FAQ quite a few articles amount to pretty much