On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:29:28AM -0700, John Beck wrote:
> First, thanks for the review!
>
>
> JBeck> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~jbeck/mailwrapper/
>
> Danek> Could you talk a bit about how a second / different MTA would interact
> Danek> with mailwrapper? I'm a bit confused about how mailer.conf delivers
> Danek> sendmail-specific configuration, but the sendmail package delivers
> Danek> generic links to mailwrapper; that seems backwards to me. Plus I don't
> Danek> see how installing, say, postfix, would switch (or allow a switch) the
> Danek> system to the new MTA.
>
> You would install the second / different MTA wherever, then update mailer.conf
> to point to its installation. From the discussion that you, Bart and I had in
> your office just now, I will defer the following suggestions to Ceri (though
> I will note that I see your arguments for them and I don't have any arguments
> against them):
>
> * Perhaps the usr/lib/sendmail sym-link should be moved from SUNWsndmu to
> SUNWmailwrapper?
> * Perhaps etc/mail/mailer.conf should be changed to a sym-link with the
> default target being etc/mail/mailer.conf-sendmail (which would be provided
> by SUNWsndmr), and sendmail's start method script would be responsible for
> making sure the sym-link target was correct? Likewise, other MTAs would
> have their start method scripts change the sym-link target to their own
> mailer.conf, e.g., etc/mail/mailer.conf-postfix .
I'll have a think about these and reply over the weekend.
Thanks both,
Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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