On 07/08/2013 15:19, Panagiotis Christias wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 10:43:49PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>> On 06/08/2013 22:28, Thomas Laus wrote:
>>> I like the 'sendmail from ports' suggestion a little better. Going this
>>> route, I only need to make configuration changes to /etc/mail/mailer.conf
>>> once. All subsequent freebsd-update operations won't require rebuilding
>>> sendmail and it's tools. Any updates to the port version are covered by
>>> the
>>> normal port update system. Future updates to the port version only require
>>> a
>>> 'make restart' in the /etc/mail directory after reviewing my .mc file for
>>> any
>>> affected changes.
>>
>> If you're using the ports version of sendmail, a handy tip is to add
>> this to /etc/make.conf:
>>
>> SENDMAIL_CF_DIR= /usr/local/share/sendmail/cf
>> MAKEMAP= /usr/local/sbin/makemap
>>
>> so you use a version of the sendmail M4 config bits that matches the
>> sendmail binary you're running, and you can use /etc/mail/Makefile to
>> generate and install the configs exactly as if you were using the base
>> system sendmail.
>
>
> Indeed, plus:
>
> SENDMAIL=/usr/local/sbin/sendmail
>
> And in /etc/rc.conf:
>
> sendmail_program="/usr/local/sbin/sendmail"
/etc/mail/mailer.conf does that bit for you.
Cheers,
Matthew
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