Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 20:29:12 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Kurt Bigler <kkb@breathhost.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail Message-ID: <20030108072912.GA38197@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <BA4112BD.6232%kkb@breathhost.net> References: <20030107065900.GA34226@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <BA4112BD.6232%kkb@breathhost.net>
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On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:26:53PM -0800, Kurt Bigler wrote:
> on 1/6/03 10:59 PM, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:29:15PM -0800, Kurt Bigler wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >> The problem came up when my VPS provider did a system upgrade. This process
> >> left everything I had intact except I lost my sendmail soft link which had
> >> pointed to the sendmail replacement provided by qmail. The link was
> >> replaced by the sendmail binary with the result that I suddently had
> >> sendmail running again beside qmail.
> >
> > The correct thing to do is to leave the sendmail binary alone and
> > tweak /etc/mail/mailer.conf so that the sendmail replacement is
> > invoked instead of the base-system's sendmail.
>
> Yes, I actually corrected mailer.conf when the problem occurred, but I have
> heard that some software will try to use /usr/sbin/sendmail explicitly
> ignoring mailer.conf.
/usr/sbin/sendmail is a symbolic link to /usr/sbin/mailwrapper. ie
invoking /usr/sbin/sendmail will consult /etc/mail/mailer.conf.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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