[BlueOnyx:25631] Switching between sendmail and postfix on 3210R

[Neil Watson]

Hi

I thought, seeing the discussions on here some time ago, that I'd try 
switching to postfix, so did it in the GUI...

My mail gets relayed via a 3rd party who insists on connections via port 
587 - which the GUI doesn't seem to accept in the Smart Relay Server 
field. I'd put it in manually to make it work in sendmail.mc...

However, when sendmail.mc gets parsed, the port (in RELAY_MAILER_ARGS) 
doesn't get picked up, so postfix tries to use port 25 - and the relay 
won't accept the authenticated connection! Editing mail.cf  manually (or 
via Webmin) to set the relayhost enabled it to work - until the file 
gets regenerated automatically.

The other thing that's a bit of a pain is that it seems /etc/procmailrc 
gets regenerated when I make the switch... I've got a different 
procmailrc that calls my installations of clamav and SpamAssassin and 
delivers with Dovecot's deliver  - so I can make the sieve extension 
work...

There are other utilities (like the sendmail command) that seem to be 
able to "soft link" in /etc/alternatives/mta* to either a version for 
.sendmail or .postfix. What switches these links - as the GUI change 
doesn't seem to have done it. Do I have to do it manually?

Am I doing things the wrong way round, or is this an area that could be 
enhanced?

Thanks

Neil.

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