To use postfix instead of sendmail: - clear sendmail queue and stop the sendmail daemons Run the following commands to enable postfix during startup: - sysrc postfix_enable="YES" - sysrc sendmail_enable="NONE" If postfix is *not* already activated in %%MC_PREFIX%%/etc/mail/mailer.conf - mv %%MC_PREFIX%%/etc/mail/mailer.conf %%MC_PREFIX%%/etc/mail/mailer.conf.old - install -m 0644 %%DATADIR%%/mailer.conf.postfix %%MC_PREFIX%%/etc/mail/mailer.conf Disable sendmail(8) specific tasks, add the following lines to /etc/periodic.conf(.local): daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO" daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO" daily_submit_queuerun="NO" If you are using SASL, you need to make sure that postfix has access to read the sasldb file. This is accomplished by adding postfix to group mail and making the %%PREFIX%%/etc/sasldb* file(s) readable by group mail (this should be the default for new installs). If you are upgrading from prior postfix version, please see the README files for recommended changes to your configuration and additional http://www.postfix.org/COMPATIBILITY_README.html