> How do you send messages? I'm sure you configured /etc/mailer.conf
> to use Postfix instead of Sendmail...

That was it. I didn't know about /etc/mailer.conf.
I have sendmail=NO and postfix=YES in my /etc/rc.conf, so I bluntly
assumed the system was using postfix already. 

thanks a million
stefan

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