On (05/15/06 16:56), Jon LaBadie wrote: > I don't think sendmail supports a -s option, neither postfix's compatibility > version nor the real version.
Interesting. Since Amanda tries to use sendmail (apparently) by default, I'm surprised I wasn't able to find any other posts by people having the same problem as I am. > Amanda is not expecting to use a mail transport agent (MTA) directly, > but a mail user agent (MUA) that supports the -s option. > > At a shell command line, how do you "send mail directly with postfix"? To be honest, I'm not sure, although I believe that it would involve postdrop. This is what sendmail uses, according to postfix's manpages. Unfortunately, postdrop doesn't support the -s option either. > While not germane to your query, I'm curious why you would rather amanda > not use an MUA. It's just policy at our site to build servers with as few dependencies as possible. It's not a big problem, it's just that adding a mail user agent would be one more (small) dependency for our backups servers. Thanks for the reply, Josh
