I have /usr/bin/mail on the mac, and it’s looking for /etc/postfix/main.cf
I have rebuilt postfix from source, and relocated it, the files now living in
/usr/local/etc/postfix
So I’m wondering what /usr/bin/mail’s relationship to postfix is?
Robert Chalmers
It might be trying to use postfix as the MTA.
On 03/12/2016 07:55 AM, Robert Chalmers wrote:
I have /usr/bin/mail on the mac, and it’s looking for
/etc/postfix/main.cf
I have rebuilt postfix from source, and relocated it, the files now
living in /usr/local/etc/postfix
So I’m wondering what
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 03:55:10PM +, Robert Chalmers wrote:
> I have /usr/bin/mail on the mac, and it’s looking for
> /etc/postfix/main.cf
It's not a part of Postfix at all. Mailx/mail is a MUA, whereas
sendmail(1) is a Postfix to Sendmail compatibility interface. Most
mailx implementati
Robert Chalmers:
> I have /usr/bin/mail on the mac, and it?s looking for /etc/postfix/main.cf
>
> I have rebuilt postfix from source, and relocated it, the files now living in
> /usr/local/etc/postfix
>
>
> So I?m wondering what /usr/bin/mail?s relationship to postfix is?
/usr/bin/mail sends
Thanks.
So on OSX 10.11 mail is hard coded to look for /etc/postfix/main.conf.
A bit of a nuisance. So I'll just symlink to my /usr/local/etc/postfix/main.conf
-
From my iPhone.
> On 12 Mar 2016, at 9:02 pm, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> Robert Chalmers:
>> I have /usr/bin/mail on the mac, a
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 09:15:11PM +, Chalmers wrote:
> So on OSX 10.11 mail is hard coded to look for /etc/postfix/main.conf.
No, not all. Rather, the standard local submission interface on
Unix systems has been sendmail(1) for over 3 decades. The only
thing that's changed is the location
Let me explain what's happening, or what happened.
I rebuilt Postfix, to install in /user/local/etc/postfix and set the command to
be in /user/local/sbin and so on, and it all works fine, as it should.
The reason I moved it, is because each time OSX updates, it overwrites
/etc/postfix of course,
On 03/12/2016 11:58 PM, rob...@chalmers.com.au wrote:
Let me explain what's happening, or what happened.
I rebuilt Postfix, to install in /user/local/etc/postfix and set the command to
be in /user/local/sbin and so on, and it all works fine, as it should.
The reason I moved it, is because each
> On 13 Mar 2016, at 08:41, Alice Wonder wrote:
>
> It's possible the mail command on OS X is using the OS X sendmail command
> provided by the OS X postfix which would want its configuration file at
> /etc/postfix/main.cf
It is. Though MacOSX puts the sendmail front-end in /usr/sbin:
> On Mar 13, 2016, at 5:07 AM, Jim Reid wrote:
>
>
>> On 13 Mar 2016, at 08:41, Alice Wonder wrote:
>>
>> It's possible the mail command on OS X is using the OS X sendmail command
>> provided by the OS X postfix which would want its configuration file at
>> /etc/postfix/main.cf
>
> It is.
rob...@chalmers.com.au:
> It's the only thing that fails. I move old-postfix back to
> etc/postfix, and of course it works again. I need 'mail' to work,
> because it is used by crown if nothing else...
>
> So that's what made me wonder if it's related to postfix in some
> way, as it seems to need
I’d forgotten about strings - getting old.
That fixed the problem. I
moved /etc/postfix to /etc/x-postfix
linked -s /usr/local/sbin/sendmail to /usr/sbin/sendmail
did
echo date | mail rob...@chalmers.com
and it works.
I disabled SIP as soon as I installed the upgrade ages ago.
and I confess
Interesting idea Wietse.
I’ll look into it.
> On 13 Mar 2016, at 14:53, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> rob...@chalmers.com.au:
>> It's the only thing that fails. I move old-postfix back to
>> etc/postfix, and of course it works again. I need 'mail' to work,
>> because it is used by crown if nothing
Could you now just make a soft link to the files on /etc/old-postfix?
On 03/13/2016 01:58 AM, rob...@chalmers.com.au wrote:
Let me explain what's happening, or what happened.
I rebuilt Postfix, to install in /user/local/etc/postfix and set the command to
be in /user/local/sbin and so on, and i
On Mar 13, 2016, at 12:58 AM, rob...@chalmers.com.au wrote:
> So I renamed/moved /etc/postfix, to /etc/old-postfix. .which has been ok,
> except for 'mail'
> Eg
> echo date | mail rob...@chalmers.com
> Fails with
> 'can't find /etc/postfix/main.cf'
>
> It's the only thing that fails. I move old-
On Mar 13, 2016, at 9:06 AM, Robert Chalmers wrote:
> Nice hardware, but the software is really recycled FreeBSD. say what?
This should not be news. One of the reasons I chose FreeBSD for my servers was
because I wouldn’t have to change modes between OS X and my servers.
--
Marriages made in
Yes, I moved the Apple /usr/bin/sendmail to /usr/bin/old-sendmail
Then created a symlink from my own build of sendmail. /usr/local/bin/sendmail
to /usr/bin/sendmail, and now Apple’s mail works as it should.
The original complaint from mail when I moved the /etc/postfix directory to
/etc/old-post
On 14-03-16 17:05, @lbutlr wrote:
> On Mar 13, 2016, at 9:06 AM, Robert Chalmers
> wrote:
>> Nice hardware, but the software is really recycled FreeBSD. say
>> what?
>
> This should not be news. One of the reasons I chose FreeBSD for my
> servers was because I wouldn’t have to change modes betwee
In message <76865be6-8041-498d-91ae-36ef80c91...@kreme.com>
"@lbutlr" writes:
>
> On Mar 13, 2016, at 9:06 AM, Robert Chalmers wrote:
> > Nice hardware, but the software is really recycled FreeBSD. say what?
>
> This should not be news. One of the reasons I chose FreeBSD for my
> servers was b
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