Subject: Re: Sendmail removal
To: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>
From: Andrew Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/22/2001 11:32:30
If you use exim built from pkgsrc, you'll have the correct mailer.conf file
here:
/usr/pkg/etc/exim/mailer.conf.exim
Andrew
Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de> wrote:
> Jack Morgan writes:
>
> >I'm new to NetBSD. If I remove all files for sendmail
> >is it going to cause any problems? I would like to use
> >Exim or postfix.
>
> Postfix already ships in-base with NetBSD (although a somewhat
> older version, that is). Just adapt /etc/mailer.conf to point
> to the postfix executables, like:
>
> sendmail /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail
> send-mail /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail
> mailq /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail
> newaliases /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail
> hoststat /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail
> purgestat /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail
>
> (Some programs like hoststat are not emulated by the postfix sendmail
> but doesn't matter.)
> There's no need to remove sendmail, unless you loathe it personally
> and want to get rid off it from your platters (but then it'll probably
> get reinstalled with the next system rebuild anyways.)
>
> --mkb