"Turning off Apple's MTA" after postfix port install

[Charlie Allom]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 10:00:29PM -0700, Mark Duling wrote:
> Charlie Allom <yeled at macports.org> writes:
> >> sudo mv /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail.old
> >> sudo ln -s /opt/local/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
> >
> >this can be accomplished various ways. I use my $PATH personally.
> 
> You mean put MacPorts paths first?  I did that and all was well except the
> one thing I needed postfix for.  Namely, sending mail with the 'mail'
> executable on the MTA host.  I guess 'mail' isn't part of postfix and
> Apple's 'mail' executable must be hardcoded to use /usr/sbin/sendmail
15:08 eris:~% strings /usr/bin/mail|grep sendmail
       %*s [- sendmail-options ...]
       sendmail
       /usr/sbin/sendmail

> I can't find a postfix-watch command.  But I suppose it wouldn't matter
> anyway if Apple's LaunchDaemon is removed?

sure

> So would it be ok if I modified the ui_msgs from this:
> 
> ui_msg "To get postfix working, you need to copy sample configuration "
> ui_msg "files and to edit them (${prefix}/etc/postfix/*.sample)."
> ui_msg "You may also want to turn your system's MTA off."
> 
> to this:
> 
> ui_msg "\n
> To get postfix working, you need to copy the sample configuration
> files and edit them (${prefix}/etc/postfix/*.sample).  You may also
> want to turn off Apple's built-in MTA.  For example, on 10.4:
> 
> -Delete /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.postfix.master.plist
> -Replace the built-in sendmail file with a symlink to MacPorts' sendmail:
> 	sudo mv /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail.org
> 	ln -s ${prefix}local/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail \n"
> 
> 


go for it.

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