Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:29:40 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: "S.N.Grigoriev" <serguey-grigoriev@yandex.ru> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail replacement Message-ID: <4B4DCAC4.70108@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <10471263386697@webmail49.yandex.ru> References: <661263379937@webmail51.yandex.ru> <4B4DAF41.5090903@infracaninophile.co.uk> <10471263386697@webmail49.yandex.ru>
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S.N.Grigoriev wrote: [...] > I thank you for your response. All you wrote is quite right. > But it is a general rule not to use in the system two sets > of slightly different programs with duplicating names. It is > a direct way to have problems. > > For example, all third party scripts should be revised to check > absolute pathes, program search results becomes depending > of the PATH value, and so on. > > It is relatively easy to do such revisions on a small home system. > But a production server with significant amount of third party software > will require a lot of time to do that job. > > To my mind it will be better to have an options in the port Makefile > allowing to replace the sendmail files in place. I fully understand your doubts, but if you are talking about PATH and the stuff, sendmail from PATH (/usr/sbin/sendmail) is not a real sendmail, it is symlink to wrapper using settings from /etc/mail/mailer.conf. No application can be confused. Miroslav Lachman
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