On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 09:51:09AM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > > On May 13, 2010, at 9:16 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: >> >> "Installed at the same time" and "operational at the same time" are >> not the same thing. This is one of the things that "alternatives" >> helps to achieve - you switch between MTAs with a single command >> (assuming they are all properly configured, etc.). I suppose you also >> need to stop and start the corresponding services. > > > Not with MTA's. They have various files with the same names, files in > the same locations, etc. that are incompatible. While everyone likes to > put them in /etc/mail (with some linked by the same file name in /etc),
Sendmail does, originally. Not Exim, and nither postfix. As per the FHS and Debian's policy, the configuration files of package foo should be under /etc/foo . > you would need to have an /etc/mail/sendmail, /etc/mail/qmail, / > etc/mail/postfix, and so on tree, a /var/mail (or /var/spool/mail) /var[/spool]/mail is not managed by the MTA. The MTA may put files there directly, or deliver it using a tool such as procmail. It may also need to deliver files to various other places (e.g.: to the separatly managed IMAP mailboxes of cyrus-imap). -- Tzafrir Cohen | [email protected] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [email protected] | | best [email protected] | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
