Greetings!
Steven Pierce schrieb:
> Question: I was reading the FAQ on postfix site. One questions is that do you
>still need
> Sendmail on the server for Postfix to run?? From what I can tell it is a total
>replacement
> for sendmail. Am I making an assumption for something that I should not??
Postfix is a 99.8% replacement for sendmail. The remaining 0.2% are incompatibilities
that only
occur when local services are overly using sendmail-specific stuff.
Indeed postix comes with a compatibility-program that catches local executing calls of
the
sendmail daemon and transforms them into valid postix commands. This is why you
sometimes
still see command lines like "/usr/lib/sendmail -bs -q 1m" around in a posfix system -
it's the
compatibility crutch that's being called. Think of it as an early sendmail-"API" ;-)
Same with an EXIM installation (yet another mail daemon).
HTH
Volker
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DiSCON GmbH - Internet Solutions
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