Re: Sendmail and Postfix
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Jun 22 13:47:20 2012 >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:41:46 -0500 >> From: Mark Felder >> Subject: Re: Sendmail and Postfix >> >> When you installed Postfix did you allow it to update the entries in >> /etc/mail/mailer.conf ? If so, I wouldn't worry about the mailq binary >> that came with the system; it's ignored. > > For SendMail, mailq is just a symlink to the SendMail executable. > > the "mail.conf" stuff (to use a polite word) installs it's own executable(s) > under all the 'common' names that SendMail is invoked as. These > executables look at /etc/mailer.conf, and invoke the appropiate executable > for the mailer that you have seleccted in mailer.conf. > mailer.conf is usually modified my the Postfix port and I am not sure but I think the option is checked by default. The lines to add to rc.conf to de-activate Sendmail and usu Postfix on the base system are: sendmail_enable="NO" sendmail_submit_enable="NO" sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" postfix_enable="YES" -- Alejandro Imass > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Sendmail and Postfix
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Jun 22 13:47:20 2012 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:41:46 -0500 > From: Mark Felder > Subject: Re: Sendmail and Postfix > > When you installed Postfix did you allow it to update the entries in > /etc/mail/mailer.conf ? If so, I wouldn't worry about the mailq binary > that came with the system; it's ignored. For SendMail, mailq is just a symlink to the SendMail executable. the "mail.conf" stuff (to use a polite word) installs it's own executable(s) under all the 'common' names that SendMail is invoked as. These executables look at /etc/mailer.conf, and invoke the appropiate executable for the mailer that you have seleccted in mailer.conf. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Sendmail and Postfix
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:41:46 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: > When you installed Postfix did you allow it to update the entries in > /etc/mail/mailer.conf ? If so, I wouldn't worry about the mailq binary > that came with the system; it's ignored. Thanks! (Thanks too to the other responders.) Looks like that's the step I missed. Fixed now. Cheers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Sendmail and Postfix
Hi-- On Jun 22, 2012, at 11:19 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: > A little digging around has revealed that there are two 'mailq' > executables on my system: /usr/local/bin/mailq and /usr/bin/mailq. > > The first is part of the mail/postfix-current port which I have installed > and use, and the second is presumably part of Sendmail, which I have not > installed and do not use. > > It seems that Sendmail is embedded somehow in the base system. What is > the 'approved' way to get rid of /usr/bin/mailq? Or better, remove > Sendmail? BSD Unixes have shipped with Sendmail for decades, much as BIND is also included-- so yes, Sendmail is included with the base system by default. The approved way is to simply leave things be. Properly written software will honor the links setup by mailwrapper(8) and use the Postfix MTA which you installed instead: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-changingmta.html If you really want to remove sendmail entirely, you can rebuild FreeBSD with NO_SENDMAIL=TRUE ...set in /etc/make.conf, which will avoid building sendmail at all. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Sendmail and Postfix
During subsequent system upgrades, of you build from source, you should watch out for thus during the mergemaster piece. Brian On Jun 22, 2012 11:44 AM, "Matthew Seaman" wrote: > On 22/06/2012 19:19, Walter Hurry wrote: > > It seems that Sendmail is embedded somehow in the base system. What is > > the 'approved' way to get rid of /usr/bin/mailq? Or better, remove > > Sendmail? > > You don't need to remove the base system sendmail. All you need to do > is set up /etc/mail/mailer.conf properly -- and installing the postfix > port should do that for you -- and then any reference to > /usr/sbin/sendmail, /usr/bin/mailq, usr/bin/hoststat etc. will run > postfix instead. It's really very nicely done. > > See mailer.conf(5) > >Cheers, > >Matthew > > PS. Alright, yes. You can prevent sendmail from being built as part of > the base system by defining 'WITHOUT_SENDMAIL=yes' in /etc/src.conf, but > this supposes that you want to build the system yourself, rather than > using, say, freebsd-update(8). See src.conf(5) and read in > /usr/src/UPDATING and the Handbook about the procedure for building the > system from source. > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey > > > > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Sendmail and Postfix
When you installed Postfix did you allow it to update the entries in /etc/mail/mailer.conf ? If so, I wouldn't worry about the mailq binary that came with the system; it's ignored. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Sendmail and Postfix
On 22/06/2012 19:19, Walter Hurry wrote: > It seems that Sendmail is embedded somehow in the base system. What is > the 'approved' way to get rid of /usr/bin/mailq? Or better, remove > Sendmail? You don't need to remove the base system sendmail. All you need to do is set up /etc/mail/mailer.conf properly -- and installing the postfix port should do that for you -- and then any reference to /usr/sbin/sendmail, /usr/bin/mailq, usr/bin/hoststat etc. will run postfix instead. It's really very nicely done. See mailer.conf(5) Cheers, Matthew PS. Alright, yes. You can prevent sendmail from being built as part of the base system by defining 'WITHOUT_SENDMAIL=yes' in /etc/src.conf, but this supposes that you want to build the system yourself, rather than using, say, freebsd-update(8). See src.conf(5) and read in /usr/src/UPDATING and the Handbook about the procedure for building the system from source. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
