Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 20:04:44 +0000 From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/26774: Installation of rmail, even without sendmail Message-ID: <20010502200444.A9708@linnet.org> In-Reply-To: <200105021823.f42INVg25793@orthanc.ab.ca> References: <200105021750.f42Ho2N53957@freefall.freebsd.org> <200105021823.f42INVg25793@orthanc.ab.ca>
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On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:23:31PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> The problem here is that current rmail's assume there
> will always be an MTA present, however there has never been a
> standardized command-line API for interacting with the local MTA.
> (The /usr/{lib,libexec,sbin}/sendmail one is about as close to a
> defacto standard as you can get.) We have mailwrapper, however
> I don't think that's the correct solution. The common sendmail
> command line interface just can't cope with things like DSNs,
> message tracking, and authentication.
Indeed. But doesn't this problem go away if you say "every MTA must provide
its own rmail-type program"?
The problem is that every MTA is now tied to the rmail<-->sendmail
interaction. Currently rmail invokes
sendmail -G -oee -odi -oi -p%s -p%s[:%s[.%s]] -f%s.s <dest>
but it changes periodically.
OTOH, if I replace /bin/rmail with a symlink to exim or smail, it just does
the right thing.
Regards,
Brian.
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