> Why is it that if you switch from sendmail to postfix and do
> buildworld postfix gets hosed?
>
> I had postfix working good before the buildworld, now it doesn't work
> at all. If you use sendmail and do a buildworld, sendmail works fine
> afterwards but not postfix. I went back and setup postfix like I did
> before and for some reason it won't start. Dunno what happend, I guess
> I should just stay with sendmail.
>
> A couple of questions.
>
> I read that postfix was more secure than sendmail, is this true?
>
> Anyone knows about Exim and Qmail? I've never tried those, are they
> any good?
>
> If you use Exim or Qmail will they get hosed during a buildworld like
> postfix?
>
> TIA
>
>
>

Hello, I use postfix and never had this issue, mergemaster replace the contents of the mailer.conf if you tell it too. But that shouldn't break postfix you probably did something and the buildworld does not touch items in /usr/local.

-Chris