postfix launch at system startup

Andrew L. Gould algould at datawok.com
Thu Nov 18 08:08:37 PST 2004


On Thursday 18 November 2004 09:46 am, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> On 11/18/04 03:31 PM, Kjell Midtseter sat at the `puter and typed:
> > When I later went through a cvsup/portupgrade sequence, I had to
> > answer "YES" to the question
> > "Would you like to activate Postfix in /etc/mail/mailer.conf [n]?"
> > If you answer "No" you will revert to sendmail.
> >  Kjekk
>
> I answered yes.  Always do.
>
> Lou

Answering yes results in changes /etc/mail/mailer.conf so that calls to 
certain email executables will be mapped to postfix rather than 
sendmail.  I am (fairly) certain that it does _not_ make the necessary 
changes to ensure that:

1) sendmail is not started at bootup
2) postfix is started at bootup
3) sendmail is not compiled during the next "make buildworld"

Andrew Gould


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