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From: Brian Whalen <bri@sonicboom.org>
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To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
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Subject: Re: sendmail upgrade
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Figured out the below, now what I get is a banner showing 8.11.6/8.11.3 ??
I t all seems to work.

Brian "Sonic" Whalen
Success = Preparation + Opportunity


On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> Sean Ellis <sellis@telus.net> wrote:
> > Hello Brian,
> >
> > I been making some changes with my own sendmail. I thought that the
> > executable was  /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail with permissions 4555.
>
> As a matter of fact, it is.
> The _real_ executable of sendmail is in /usr/libexec/sendmail.
>
> What you see in /usr/sbin/sendmail is a link to mailwrapper.
> This exists because programs might call sendmail with an absolute path
> (programs such as pine, mutt, etc).
>
> If you install some other MTA instead of Sendmail (qmail for example),
> you only have to update /etc/mail/mailer.conf to make sure that everyone calls
> the right MTA when they invoke /usr/sbin/sendmail.  It's all explained pretty
> nicely in the mailwrapper manpage actually :)
>
> -giorgos
>


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