Bug 22287

Summary:	binary upgrade install to 4.1.1 does not preserve /etc/mail/mailer.conf
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Simon Hewison <simon>
Component:	conf	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Simon Hewison 2000-10-25 11:20:01 UTC

On upgrading from 4.0-RELEASE to 4.1.1-RELASE using a binary upgrade,
although it happily preserves much of the system configuration files
in /etc, it ignores /etc/mail/mailer.conf.

This stops any outgoing mail from working as intended since it hits an (unconfigured) version of the raw sendmail.

Fix: 

Manually take a backup, and replace file after upgrade.
How-To-Repeat: Install exim (or any other sendmail drop-in replacement), configure it up in /etc/mail/mailer.conf and do a binary upgrade

Comment 1 dd freebsd_committer

2001-09-06 14:15:44 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

/etc/mail is now preserved.