mirror of
https://git.FreeBSD.org/ports.git
synced 2024-11-17 00:00:40 +00:00
57 lines
2.3 KiB
Plaintext
57 lines
2.3 KiB
Plaintext
|
In addition to PORT_NOTES_FreeBSD_40-RELEASE, there are many
|
||
|
|
other potentially important qmail documents there such as PORT_NOTES
|
||
|
|
and INSTALL.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
As with all ports, the ports maintainer (me!) makes NO WARRANTIES of
|
||
|
|
any kind: expressed, implied, or other; about the reliability or
|
||
|
|
security of this package. Any damage or problems derived from its
|
||
|
|
usage or related to it are neither my responsibility nor the software
|
||
|
|
author's. This package is provided AS IS.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Although I am probably sounding cold and harsh, believe me: qmail is
|
||
|
|
one of the most reliable and easy-to-use softwares around. However,
|
||
|
|
this also is NOT a WARRANTY. It is just an opinion. :)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
The qmail port will normally install into /var/qmail/. If you changed
|
||
|
|
this to /usr/local/, then please note that the docs have been
|
||
|
|
installed into /usr/local/share/doc/qmail/ (as opposed to
|
||
|
|
/usr/local/doc/).
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
##
|
||
|
|
### Document starts here
|
||
|
|
##
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
If you read PORT_NOTES, you may have noticed I mentioned step 12 should
|
||
|
|
be changed for FreeBSD versions 4.0-Release and later.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
FreeBSD 4.0-Release and later come with a program named mailwrapper (8)
|
||
|
|
which eases the replacement of sendmail. No binaries need to be touched,
|
||
|
|
"chmod"ed, erased, deleted or, otherwise, modified.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Whenever you call /usr/sbin/sendmail, /usr/bin/mail, or /usr/bin/newaliases;
|
||
|
|
in fact, you are calling a symbolic link to mailwrapper. Mailwrapper
|
||
|
|
then calls the appropriate binary according to its configuration file.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
An excerpt from the mailwrapper manual:
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
"The mailwrapper program is designed to replace /usr/sbin/sendmail and to
|
||
|
|
invoke an appropriate MTA instead of sendmail(8) based on configuration
|
||
|
|
information placed in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. This permits the administra-
|
||
|
|
tor to configure which MTA is to be invoked on the system at run time."
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Configuration for mailwrapper is kept in /etc/mail/mailer.conf.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Here follows my personal /etc/mail/mailer.conf
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
sendmail /var/qmail/bin/sendmail
|
||
|
|
send-mail /var/qmail/bin/sendmail
|
||
|
|
mailq /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat
|
||
|
|
newaliases /var/qmail/bin/newaliases
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
So, whenever you call sendmail, in fact, you are using the appropriate
|
||
|
|
"qmail-clones".
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
You should notice, though, that the programs do not behave exactly as
|
||
|
|
their sendmail counterparts. Therefore, reading the appropriate
|
||
|
|
/var/qmail/doc files and man pages is highly advisable.
|