Subject: Re: Replace system Postfix
To: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/01/2005 07:50:26
In message <41FF1ACD.1080306@incubus.de>, Matthias Buelow writes:
>Florian Stoehr wrote:
>
>> mailwrapper / mailer.conf -> Yep that helps a lot. Thanks all.
>
>the problem is, when you type "postfix reload", will it run the "new" 
>postfix?
>
>that is something that can't be sufficiently resolved within the current 
>framework. [why both sendmail _and_ postfix have to be in the base 
>system eludes me, anyways..]

Religion....

More generally, I don't think the system does a good job with software 
that's both in the base system and in pkgsrc.  I'm currently fighting 
this with xorg vs. XFree86.  But that's a topic for tech-pkg, I think.

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb