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
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