I recently did two new fresh installs of 12.1-RELEASE and then pkg installed postfix 3.4.9,1 on each of them. At the end of the pkg installs the following message displays: 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 /usr/local/etc/mail/mailer.conf - mv /usr/local/etc/mail/mailer.conf /usr/local/etc/mail/mailer.conf.old - install -m 0644 /usr/local/share/postfix/mailer.conf.postfix /usr/local/etc/mail/mailer.conf No problem with the first two paragraphs but the directory /usr/local/etc/mail does not exist, either before or after the pkg install. Should that last paragraph read: If postfix is *not* already activated in /etc/mail/mailer.conf - mv /etc/mail/mailer.conf /etc/mail/mailer.conf.old - install -m 0644 /usr/local/share/postfix/mailer.conf.postfix /etc/mail/mailer.conf
I have just realized that I ran the pkg install from an ESXi console and this part of the post-install instructions had scrolled off the top: =============================================================== Postfix was *not* activated in /usr/local/etc/mail/mailer.conf! To finish installation run the following commands: mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/mail install -m 0644 /usr/local/share/postfix/mailer.conf.postfix /usr/local/etc/mail/mailer.conf =============================================================== Apologies for the noise.
sorry for delay, since you found the solution I'll close the request