Subject: Re: Switching over to pkg/postfix
To: Roger Fischer <r@aileron.org>
From: James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/28/2003 21:48:19
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 13:16:55 -0700, Roger Fischer <r@aileron.org> wrote:
> I'm trying to migrate from the default postfix (1.1.3) in NetBSD 1.6.1
> to pkgsrc postfix (2.0.14). (Please let me know if this is a bad idea
> ;^)
...
> Now here is where things get weird. I see that there are some new
> commands in /usr/pkg/sbin:
> sendmail, postalias, postqueue.
> Are these the new commands? In /etc/mailer.conf, all of these had
> been aliased to /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail. Should all these
> commands no go to /usr/pkg/sbin/sendmail,
> or do I do anything with postalias and postqueue?
I'm no expert, but I did spend the weekend reading postfix docs.
Best I can see, mailer.conf should alias everything to
/usr/pkg/sbin/sendmail. mailwrapper will transform e.g. "mailq" into the
appropriate "sendmail xxx", which of course will be postfix's sendmail
emulation.
--jkl