Hopefully this isn't a duplicate message. I've been repairing the mail system.
Just a FYI that if you update boost-libs with pkg under freeBSD, it loads postfix for some reason. All my .db files were unreadable. I had to postmap and postalias them to make them readable again. I should have said no, but unfortunately indicated yes. --------------------------------------------------------- # pkg install boost-libs Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up-to-date. All repositories are up-to-date. The following 5 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): Installed packages to be UPGRADED: boost-libs: 1.55.0_10 -> 1.55.0_13 icu: 55.1 -> 57.1,1 harfbuzz: 1.3.0 -> 1.3.2 Installed packages to be REINSTALLED: postfix-3.1.3,1 (options changed) musicpd-0.19.15_4 (options changed) Number of packages to be upgraded: 3 Number of packages to be reinstalled: 2 The operation will free 25 MiB. 20 MiB to be downloaded. Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y Fetching boost-libs-1.55.0_13.txz: 100% 9 MiB 4.7MB/s 00:02 Fetching icu-57.1,1.txz: 100% 9 MiB 9.3MB/s 00:01 Fetching harfbuzz-1.3.2.txz: 100% 258 KiB 264.7kB/s 00:01 Fetching postfix-3.1.3,1.txz: 100% 1 MiB 772.0kB/s 00:02 Fetching musicpd-0.19.15_4.txz: 100% 200 KiB 205.2kB/s 00:01 Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) [1/5] Upgrading icu from 55.1 to 57.1,1... [1/5] Extracting icu-57.1,1: 100% [2/5] Upgrading boost-libs from 1.55.0_10 to 1.55.0_13... [2/5] Extracting boost-libs-1.55.0_13: 100% [3/5] Upgrading harfbuzz from 1.3.0 to 1.3.2... [3/5] Extracting harfbuzz-1.3.2: 100% [4/5] Reinstalling postfix-3.1.3,1... ===> Creating groups. Using existing group 'mail'. Using existing group 'maildrop'. Using existing group 'postfix'. ===> Creating users Using existing user 'postfix'. [4/5] Extracting postfix-3.1.3,1: 100% You may need to manually remove /usr/local/etc/postfix/main.cf if it is no longer needed. You may need to manually remove /usr/local/etc/postfix/master.cf if it is no longer needed. Note: the following files or directories still exist but are no longer part of Postfix: /usr/local/etc/postfix/virtual Would you like to activate Postfix in /etc/mail/mailer.conf [n]? n =============================================================== Postfix was *not* activated in /etc/mail/mailer.conf! To finish installation run the following commands: mv -f /etc/mail/mailer.conf /etc/mail/mailer.conf.old install -m 0644 /usr/local/share/postfix/mailer.conf.postfix /etc/mail/mailer.conf ===============================================================