This page is identical to http://freebsd.qmailrocks.org/remove.htm, however sendmail is in /usr/sbin/sendmail and /etc/rc.conf should have sendmail_flags="-L sm-mta -C/etc/mail/localhost.cf -bd -q30m" changed to #sendmail_flags="-L sm-mta -C/etc/mail/localhost.cf -bd -q30m" sendmail_flags=NO rm /usr/sbin/sendmail ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail We should also remove the sendmail queue runner job from crontab. Usually the first of the jobs in the crontab: */30 * * * * /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q