On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 4:32 AM, David Walker <davidianwal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gilles Chehade <gilles () poolp ! org>
>> We are getting closer to a stable version of OpenSMTPD
>
> Which to my mind raises the question of how OpenSMTPD is to be
> implemented alongside Sendmail in the base system.
> Presumably, as per other items that are included in base but not the
> default, i.e. DNS services, etcetera, there will be a perhaps lengthy
> period where these systems co-exist and are both intended to be usable
> in their own right.
>
> AFAIUI, currently base contains some specific OpenSMTPD items for use
> and documentation, smtpd and smtpd(8), smtpctl and smtpctl(8),
> smtpd.conf and smtpd.conf(5) ...
> These items exist in their own name space and are accessible.
>
> These man pages, and by extension these services, reference and depend
> on utilities and concomitant man pages which are taxonomically
> identical to similar items designed for Sendmail ...
> Being labelled identically there's only room for one of each and as
> Sendmail is the current default mail system the OpenSMTPD items are
> not installed.
>
> The OpenSMTPD man pages don't make this clear and other than OpenSMTPD
> not working when the Sendmail incumbents are used and referenced
> there's no indication that something is awry.
>
> For instance, if I read smtpd.conf(5) I see references like this:
> map map source type source
> Maps are used to provide additional configuration information for
> smtpd(8).
>
> map may be named freely.
>
> type may be one of the following:
>
> db Mappings are stored in a file created using makemap(8).
> This is the default type if none is specified.
> plain Mappings are stored in a plain text file using the same
> format as used to generate makemap(8) mappings.
>
> On any system from the last year or so, following the reference to
> makemap(8) takes me to the installed Sendmail items.
>
> As the OpenSMTPD makemap(8) man page puts it:
> The
> .Nm
> command first appeared in
> .Ox 4.6
> as a replacement for the equivalent command shipped with sendmail.
>
> So I get some OpenSMTPD items, which depend on other items that are
> not installed, but still appear and do something, as identically named
> items that Sendmail relies on are installed instead.
>
> I may be out of touch here, but certainly in the past this was my
> experience, using OpenSMTPD items in base and following documentation
> and assuming that the included items were correct and appropriate.
> Assumption might not be the best idea, but in this case the assumption
> was that the Sendmail utilities and documentation were functionally
> effective as if this was not the case that OpenSMTPD would have it's
> own utilities that were included in base also and of necessity
> labelled originally.
>
> Best wishes.
>
You might have missed the mailwrapper(8) reference in smtpd(8) :
smtpd is not enabled by default. In order to use it as the system
mailer, ensure the mail queue is empty, then stop sendmail(8):
# /etc/rc.d/sendmail stop
Modify the current mailwrapper(8) settings by editing /etc/mailer.conf:
sendmail /usr/sbin/smtpctl
send-mail /usr/sbin/smtpctl
mailq /usr/sbin/smtpctl
makemap /usr/libexec/smtpd/makemap
newaliases /usr/libexec/smtpd/makemap
Rebuild the aliases database, and enable the daemon:
# newaliases
# echo "sendmail_flags=NO" >> /etc/rc.conf.local
# echo "smtpd_flags=" >> /etc/rc.conf.local
# /etc/rc.d/smtpd start
