Re: installed Postfix, no periodic message

[Chris Turner <c.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/15/11 22:24, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> I installed Postfix, which provides a Sendmail compatibility program
> at /usr/pkg/sbin/sendmail. The Sendmail binary was at /usr/sbin/sendmail. The
> periodic jobs just ran, but I don't get the usual emails. How come? Do I have
> to add /usr/pkg/sbin to the path in /etc/crontab?

I am as well reworking my mail setup to postfix -
and have found the following most useful:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-changingmta.html 
"original FreeBSD handbook"

http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/handbook/handbook-mail-changingmta/
our copy (haven't diverged too much)

http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/notes/freebsd_postfix.html
some postfix specific stuff for freebsd - again, hasn't diverged
too much

http://www.ntecs.de/files/mailserver.pdf (kudos to M. Neumann for an 
excellent 'large scale mailsetup' using DF doc - good for pkgsrc
specifics)

Big #3 items for the switch are:

- switch mailer.conf
- enable / disable appropriate rc.conf services
- enable / disable various /etc/periodic.conf jobs related to sendmail
  maintenance.  (personally need to review these to see
  what's applicable what isn't / write replacements)