freebsd stable - Aug 2003 - alternatvie MTA (mailer.conf problem)

I've installed Courier-0.42.2 as a mail server and wanted to completely
switch onto it. So, I've compiled and installed it, edited /etc/rc.conf:
sendmail_enable="NONE"

and /etc/mail/mailer.conf:
sendmail        /usr/local/bin/sendmail
send-mail       /usr/local/bin/sendmail
mailq           /usr/local/bin/mailq
newaliases      /usr/local/sbin/makealiases

but I'm still not sure it's working correctly 'cause daily reports
aren't delivered to me anymore :-( Could anyone tell me, what am I doing
wrong?

I don't know much about Courier, but I was under the impression that it was
just
an IMAP server, not an actual MTA. You may want to install Postfix and configure
it to work with Courier.

Regards,

Joel

Quoting "Pavel M. Rebrov" <prebrov@yandex.ru>:
> I've installed Courier-0.42.2 as a mail server and wanted to completely
> switch onto it. So, I've compiled and installed it, edited
/etc/rc.conf:
> sendmail_enable="NONE"
> 
> and /etc/mail/mailer.conf:
> sendmail        /usr/local/bin/sendmail
> send-mail       /usr/local/bin/sendmail
> mailq           /usr/local/bin/mailq
> newaliases      /usr/local/sbin/makealiases
> 
> but I'm still not sure it's working correctly 'cause daily
reports aren't
> delivered to me anymore :-( Could anyone tell me, what am I doing wrong?
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:26:26AM +0400, Pavel M. Rebrov
wrote:
> I've installed Courier-0.42.2 as a mail server and wanted to completely
> switch onto it. So, I've compiled and installed it, edited
/etc/rc.conf:
> sendmail_enable="NONE"
  That should stop the normal daemon from being spawned.
> and /etc/mail/mailer.conf:
> sendmail        /usr/local/bin/sendmail
> send-mail       /usr/local/bin/sendmail
> mailq           /usr/local/bin/mailq
> newaliases      /usr/local/sbin/makealiases
  I'm unfamiliar with courier too, so I assume from that snippet that
it has some sendmail-alikes for compatibility with programs that don't
natively speak courier.
> but I'm still not sure it's working correctly 'cause daily
reports aren't
> delivered to me anymore :-( Could anyone tell me, what am I doing wrong?
  If daily reports aren't being delivered, chances are that it isn't
working fully.

  If I were you, the first thing I'd do is verify that the mail clients
are doing the right thing.  The mailer.conf file changes are only good
if the email clients support that method of configuration.  If they're
./configure based, then they're out there using whatever they located
when they were built (IE, still trying to use the real sendmail binaries
in their normal location).

  Depending on how you've sabotaged it, they may just be sitting out
there in a queue undelivered.

  Check the clients, check the real queue.  Maybe rename the original
sendmail binaries and put symlinks to your courier act-alikes as a quick
test.  That ought to get you aimed in the right direction.

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 05:59:31 -0700
"John Kennedy <warlock@jk.homeunix.net>"
<warlock@jk.homeunix.net> wrote:
> Check the clients, check the real queue.  Maybe rename the original
> sendmail binaries and put symlinks to your courier act-alikes as a quick
> test.  That ought to get you aimed in the right direction.
I think that this solution is recommended in the courier documentation. 

www.courier-mta.org should provide the info needed.

-- 
Henrik Persson  nix@syndicalist.net