Jonathan Turkanis wrote: > You have identified the problem. Thanks! > > Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: >> Where are your logs for such an event? > > Looking at the logs again I observed that some of the entries were in > fact from sendmail. > > I was puzzled at first, because the sendmail daemons are turned off, > but now I realize that when attempting to test the postfix > configuration I was actually invoking (indirectly) the sendmail > command-line executable /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail. > > What is the usually way to force all system services to use postfix? I > see that /usr/sbin/sendmail is a symlink that points to > /etc/alternatives/mta, which points to /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail. > Should I redirect /etc/alternatives/mta to point to > /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix? > > In the future, when I install postfix, will the correct symlinks be > created for me, if sendmail is not present, or is this something I > have to do manually? (I am using a an RPM from CentOS extras compiled > with MySQL support).
This is a distribution question than a Postfix issue. A quick Google of "alternatives mta" should give some pointers.
