On 1 Sep 2003, at 9:40 pm, Ben Kennedy wrote:
For example... /usr/sbin/sendmail exists on my system. I want to know which package provided that. In particular, I want to install courier- mta. So I would like to first figure out who put sendmail there, and unmerge that package if appropriate.
Are you sure you have sendmail installed, however..?
The mistake I had made when I felt aggrieved that someone had installed sendmail on mysystem was that I didn't realise this:
$ ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Mar 3 23:21 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/sbin/ssmtp
`man ssmpt` says: "ssmtp is a send-only sendmail emulator... It provides the functionality required for humans and programs to send mail via the standard or /usr/bin/mail user agents"
I believe that ssmtp is "more secure" than sendmail, because it doesn't listen on port 25 (or any other network ports!) but only allows delivery from the local machine outwards to the net.
I *think* that ssmpt is part of base-layout, or of some other package which nearly everything depends upon and which consequently gets emerged early on nearly any system.
Please post & let me know how you get along with courier-mta. I use the cut-down courier-imap server, along with the courier maildrop mta, but I use Squirrelmail for webmail. I believe net-mail/courier (if this is what you intend using) uses it's own webmail environment, and would be interested to hear how you find this, as it might be suitable for a future project.
Stroller.
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