Well, the moment you've been waiting for is finally here. We're going to uninstall Sendmail from the server. However, since Sendmail is such a commonly used item among tons of server operations and cronjobs, you will see that, after we uninstall Sendmail, we will actually make an artificial Sendmail that is nothing more than a direct injection into Qmail.

Anyway, let's uninstall it...

killall sendmail (to stop all sendmail processes)

mv /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail.old

mv /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail.old (this may not apply if there is no sendmail link or binary in this location)

chmod 0 /usr/lib/sendmail.old /usr/sbin/sendmail.old

Now we will need to instruct FreeBSD not to attempt to start Sendmail upon startup. This is done by make the following modification to the /etc/rc.conf file:

Change sendmail_enable="YES" to sendmail_enable="NONE"

Now save the file and exit out of it.

Finally, we will need to set up an "artificial" Sendmail, which is just a symbolic link to Qmail's Sendmail. This is needed to ensure that the myriad of systemic mail scripts are still able to send mail! Qmail's "Sendmail" is nothing more than a direct injection into Qmail itself...

ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail

ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail

That's it! If all has gone well, Sendmail should be uninstalled and the Qmail Sendmail should be in its place.

Now we'll will finalize the installation of Qmail and then crank it up!

Proceed to Part 11