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