None of the Above (was Re: Sendmail still default?)

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:13:57 -0400
Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:50:35PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:33:43AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > 
> > > Actually that I question somewhat. Both POSIX and the LSB require
> > > local mail delivery services. A suprising number of applications
> > > that don't currently specify sendmail dependancies appear to use
> > > it. Have a grep...
> > 
> > Every package with application that calls /usr/sbin/sendmail should 
> > require that file. Isn't it the case? If you know about cases like
> > that, tell, I'll file bugs.
> 
> Try grep. That is how I did a scan.
> 

fwiw ssmtp and all those guys do provide a /usr/bin/sendmail, but one
that doesn't queue just does local delivery.



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