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| Author: | SteveG [ Mon Dec 01, 2008 4:09 pm ] |
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kangaby wrote: Generally, when you install postfix, it will remove sendmail.
It will remove the sendmail *package*. However, postfix comes with a "sendmail" binary program that is used by cron et. al. and does the expected thing (local mail submission). |
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| Author: | freedom_is_chaos [ Tue Dec 02, 2008 2:59 am ] |
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SteveG wrote: It will remove the sendmail *package*. However, postfix comes with a "sendmail" binary program that is used by cron et. al. and does the expected thing (local mail submission).
By binary, you mean a symlink to /usr/sbin/sendmail and /usr/sbin/mail. |
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| Author: | SteveG [ Tue Dec 02, 2008 11:51 am ] |
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Not on my system (standard debian postfix): $ ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22084 2008-09-14 09:09 /usr/sbin/sendmail $ ls -l /usr/sbin/mail ls: cannot access /usr/sbin/mail: No such file or directory If you meant /usr/bin/mail, that's a completely different program for reading/sending mail, which uses /usr/sbin/sendmail for the latter. |
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| Author: | mvandemar [ Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:03 am ] |
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kangaby wrote: Generally, when you install postfix, it will remove sendmail.
Actually, both sendmail and postfix were installed when I got the box, but postfix was neither configured nor running. I tried configuring postfix based on posts that I found (which lead me here), got frustrated, realized it was holding up actual development, so disabled that on boot and re-enabled sendmail until I could dig deeper into it (having mail for the main domain would be very nice, but not the top priority). Thing is, since I did that as near as I can tell no more mail has been delivered to root. Not sure why, since I never touched sendmail's config aside from disabling and then re-enabling it at boot time (which is not actual in sendmail's config). -Michael |
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