Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

From: Chris Pressey (cpressey_at_catseye.mine.nu)
Date: 09/30/03

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To: Gary <gv-list-freebsdquestions@mygirlfriday.info>

    On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:29:32 -0500
    Gary <gv-list-freebsdquestions@mygirlfriday.info> wrote:

    > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:02:22AM -0700 or thereabouts, Chris Pressey
    > wrote:
    > > ...except for some FreeBSD-specific info :)
    > >
    > > Here are some tips:
    > >
    > > 1) FreeBSD uses a "MTA wrapper" which makes your mailer *look* like
    > > sendmail, regardless of what your mailer actually is. This wrapper
    > > is located at /etc/mail/mailer.conf. Mine looks like:
    > >
    > > sendmail /var/qmail/bin/sendmail
    > > send-mail /var/qmail/bin/sendmail
    > > mailq /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread
    > > newaliases /var/qmail/bin/newaliases
    >
    > Since qmail has a sendmail wrapper to begin with, as noted above, and
    > it is put in as a replacement (marking the original to sendmail.old),
    > in/usr/lib/sendmail, and /usr/sbin/sendmail why would you need the
    > above in mailer.conf?

    You don't strictly need it, of course, but I find that FreeBSD's MTA
    wrapper is easier to use - it wasn't written just for qmail, and it
    doesn't involve directly messing with the sendmail executable.

    > > This makes setting up non-sendmail mailers quite a bit easier. IIRC
    > > the PORT_NOTES file in the qmail port has more information about
    > > this.
    >
    > Any non-sendmail mailer, I am assuming you mean those which require
    > the input of an actual SMTP source, can of course be set for SMTP as
    > localhost, 127.0.0.1, or the actual LAN IP address.

    Er - you mean running two different MTA's on different interfaces on the
    same machine? Sure, I guess you could do that, if you wanted... but
    I'm just referring to how FreeBSD's MTA wrapper lets you switch between
    sendmail, qmail, and any other sendmail-compatible MTA (say, Postfix)
    without too much effort.

    > BTW, the actual example script given on lifewithqmail.org for
    > creating groups and users for qmail, is for FreeBSD.

    Good to know.

    -Chris
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