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, review the RELEASE_NOTES to familiarize yourself with new features and incompatabilities.