Which mail transport should I use.

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Sep 22 19:09:29 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 12:11, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > But be careful what you read.  The fedora distribution supplies an
> > intentionally-broken sendmail.cf so you have to rebuild it if you
> > want to receive mail from outside at all.  However if you have
> > installed the sendmail-devel, you get a Makefile in /etc/mail
> > that automates all the grunge work after edits. 
> 
> 	You don't need sendmail-devel.
> 
> [root at mtking ~]# rpm -qa | grep sendmail
> sendmail-8.13.4-2
> sendmail-cf-8.13.4-2
> [root at mtking ~]# rpm -qf /etc/mail/Makefile
> sendmail-8.13.4-2
> 
> 	Looks like it comes in the base sendmail package.

You need more than the Makefile, but I guess it is really the
sendmail-cf package that provides the rest (m4 macros, etc.) instead
of sendmail-devel.

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   Les Mikesell
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