Re: [SLUG] Sendmail SNAFU / Postfix fixed

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Tue Jul 13 2004 - 18:25:02 EDT


On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 08:05:38AM -0400, Logan Tygart wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 18:45, Paul M Foster wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 12:13:13PM -0400, Stephen Ames wrote:
> >
> <snip>
> > Now, if you _do_ have sendmail installed along with postfix, here's the
> > problem: as I said, postfix will install its own version of sendmail. If
> > you also have the actual real bonafide sendmail package installed, then
> > there's no telling whether the "sendmail" executable is the postfix one
> > or the sendmail package one. And of course, aside from both listening on
> > port 25, they have very little in common. And using both will confuse
> > both.
>
> There are, most likely, links called sendmail to your MTA. Example,
> this box is Debian Sid using Exim:
>

<snip>

Hadn't thought of this. It must be true of exim, but not of postfix.
Postfix features its very own executable called "sendmail", not a
symlink.

Paul
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