[OpenIndiana-discuss] Help, please! Starting to use postfix in an OI151_a5 environment, from scratch

[Gary Gendel]

Hans,

Unfortunately, many programs expect /usr/bin/sendmail to work. That 
means that you either have to keep sendmail running, or replace 
/usr/lib/sendmail with the sendmail.postfix version.  If you do the 
latter, then any upgrade that includes sendmail will replace whatever 
you put in /usr/lib/sendmail with what it expects.

I made a symbolic link from /usr/lib/sendmail to sendmail.postfix so 
these programs work. Then I check to make sure this symbolic link wasn't 
over-written when I upgrade OI. Most time it doesn't replace the 
symbolic link, but occasionally it does.

I run aide to validate that non of the system files have changed, so I 
can scan that after an update to see if any of my hacks need to be re-done.

Gary

On 7/16/12 8:47 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> Will the SFE postfix package actually REPLACE sendmail??
>
> In my system, using the SFEpostfix package, there's a
> /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
> that's an executable, and
> /usr/sbin/sendmail
> which is a symlink to /usr/lib/sendmail.
>
> There's also a symlink /usr/lib/sendmail.postfix that points to 
> /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
>
> sum /usr/lib/sendmail is different from sum /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
> so I assume your statement is only true for some other form of postfix 
> installation??
>
> On 2012-07-16 14:31, openindiana-discuss-request at openindiana.org wrote:
>> Message: 8
>> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:31:40 -0400
>> From: Gary Gendel<gary at genashor.com>
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>>     <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
>> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help, please! Starting to use
>>     postfix in an OI151_a5 environment, from scratch
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>> Hans,
>>
>> You have the basics right.  The problem is that there is no clean way to
>> replace sendmail in OI yet.  When you install postfix, it will overwrite
>> /usr/lib/sendmail.
>
> Thanks for the below pointer. I actually missed that.
>
>> Besides disabling sendmail, you need to disable sendmail-client as
>> well.  The refresh on postfix should cause it to reload the
>> configuration file.
>>
>
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