On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 04:43:26PM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote:
> FreeBSD 4 is starting to play nice with alternate MTAs. Maybe other systems
> have had this feature for hundreds of years, but FreeBSD has a new thing that
> lets you define your MTA and related programs in /etc/mail/mailer.conf; it no
> longer assumes that everyone uses sendmail. /usr/sbin/sendmail, /usr/bin/mailq,
> et al are all symlinks to /usr/bin/mailwrapper, which runs the programs you
> define in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. It's very nice, and does away with the ugly
> symlinks.
I thnk I saw something similar in OpenBSD, and yes, I think this rocks. I
about to set up a cluster of FreeBSD 4-qmail boxes so this saves me some
trouble...
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
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| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
| C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.'
| Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
