Re: Default MTA for Fedora 7

[Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net>]

Once upon a time, Eric Wood <eric interplas com> said:
> The bigger issues is to why so many package have "sendmail", "postfix", 
> or "exim" hardcoded in their binaries.  A simple 'strings' command can 
> tell us what package have these potential system calls embedded in their 
> binaries:

I expect that most everything you found matching sendmail is calling
/usr/sbin/sendmail (or archaic /usr/lib/sendmail).  This is the Unix
"standard" for a local message submission program, good or bad.  That's
why on Fedora /usr/sbin/sendmail is handled with alternatives; pretty
much every replacement mailer supplies a basic /usr/sbin/sendmail that
can accept messages the same way.

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Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.