Volker,
Thank you. I have not started to use Sendmail as of yet. I am just getting ready for
my mail
server to go online. If it is a complete replacement that helps. I have heard a lot
of horror
stories about setting send mail is not for the faint of heart...
Steven
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On 10/24/2001 at 5:43 PM Volker Tanger wrote:
>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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>
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