Gordon Rowell wrote:
> Be carefil - many packages say they require sendmail when they actually
> just require and SMTP MTA.
Yeah believe so.....the only problem is that SC make some configuration
changes to sendmail.....it tries to control pop,smtp and imap itself!
>>[...]
>>OpenMail created a whole lot of extra sendmail rules; email addresses
>>of a certain format were OpenMail addresses and were to be handled in
>>a different way to (say) UUCP and SMTP addresses. So receiving
>>messages would be challenging -- does anyone know if it is possible to
>>define a new transport in qmail? (The index of "Running Qmail" doesn't
>>say anything about it).
>>
>
> qmail only talks SMTP. However, splitting out particular message
> destinations is not particularly hard. See the qmail FAQ for how to do
> it for UUCP - a similar method can be used for most messages - set up
> the appropriate filter in ~alias/.qmail-default
>
> For initial tests, I'd suggest setting up something like:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> and then creating ~openmail/.qmail-default which punts the mail into
> openmail using EXT[123...] parts of the address.
>
>
>>OpenMail would send SMTP messages out via sendmail, but it didn't use
>>any particularly special features -- so that could be easily substituted
>>by something else.
>>
>
> If OpenMail calls /usr/lib/sendmail or talks to an SMTP server on port 25,
> it should work just fine with qmail for outbound mail.
The other problem is hacking the SC install script, which I assume
looked for Sendmail as a dependency before installing....
> Gordon
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