Re: Email related questions

["Chuck Mead" <csm moongroup com>]

James Marcinek said:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I recently installed MailScanner on my system (RHEL3.0). I originally was
> using
> sendmail but decided to change to postfix. I did not use the
> redhat-alternatives
> to switch services. I configured postfix with cyrus-imapd. Everything
> seems to
> be working fine as far as sending and recieving but I'm wondering if I'm
> still
> sending mail via sendmail. Note the following email that I sent.
>
> Sep 24 09:26:45 srv01 sendmail[6340]: i8ODQi1h006340:
> to=mailscanner jiscmail ac
> .uk, ctladdr=jmarc1 jemconsult biz (56641/321), delay=00:00:01,
> xdelay=00:00:01,
>  mailer=relay, pri=31107, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0,
> stat=Sent (O
> k: queued as F36C91BF41)
>
> Now I realize that both sendmail and postfix use the sendmail command.
> when I
> issued a ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail I recieved the following link:
>
> [root srv01 alternatives]# ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail
> lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           21 Jun 15 05:57 /usr/sbin/sendmail
> -> /e
> tc/alternatives/mta
>
> Since I did not use this method should I change the symbolic link to:
> /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix

Run "redhat-switch-mail" as root.


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