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- Also add a mailer.conf that allows sendmail to be replaced with qmail. PR: 19449 Submitted by: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> and maintainer
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In addition to PORT_NOTES_FreeBSD_40-RELEASE, there are many
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other potentially important qmail documents there such as PORT_NOTES
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and INSTALL.
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As with all ports, the ports maintainer (me!) makes NO WARRANTIES of
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any kind: expressed, implied, or other; about the reliability or
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security of this package. Any damage or problems derived from its
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usage or related to it are neither my responsibility nor the software
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author's. This package is provided AS IS.
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Although I am probably sounding cold and harsh, believe me: qmail is
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one of the most reliable and easy-to-use softwares around. However,
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this also is NOT a WARRANTY. It is just an opinion. :)
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The qmail port will normally install into /var/qmail/. If you changed
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this to /usr/local/, then please note that the docs have been
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installed into /usr/local/share/doc/qmail/ (as opposed to
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/usr/local/doc/).
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##
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### Document starts here
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##
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If you read PORT_NOTES, you may have noticed I mentioned step 12 should
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be changed for FreeBSD versions 4.0-Release and later.
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FreeBSD 4.0-Release and later come with a program named mailwrapper (8)
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which eases the replacement of sendmail. No binaries need to be touched,
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"chmod"ed, erased, deleted or, otherwise, modified.
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Whenever you call /usr/sbin/sendmail, /usr/bin/mail, or /usr/bin/newaliases;
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in fact, you are calling a symbolic link to mailwrapper. Mailwrapper
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then calls the appropriate binary according to its configuration file.
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An excerpt from the mailwrapper manual:
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"The mailwrapper program is designed to replace /usr/sbin/sendmail and to
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invoke an appropriate MTA instead of sendmail(8) based on configuration
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information placed in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. This permits the administra-
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tor to configure which MTA is to be invoked on the system at run time."
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Configuration for mailwrapper is kept in /etc/mail/mailer.conf.
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Here follows my personal /etc/mail/mailer.conf
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sendmail /var/qmail/bin/sendmail
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send-mail /var/qmail/bin/sendmail
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mailq /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread
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newaliases /var/qmail/bin/newaliases
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There is a sample mailer.conf in this directory, please install
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over the /etc/mail/mailer.conf to unfold qmail as your default MTA.
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Please don<6F>t forget to backup /etc/mail/mailer.conf before doing
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so. Better safe then sorry.
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So, whenever you call sendmail, in fact, you are using the appropriate
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"qmail-clones".
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You should notice, though, that the programs do not behave exactly as
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their sendmail counterparts. Therefore, reading the appropriate
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/var/qmail/doc files and man pages is highly advisable.
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