Guy Hulbert wrote: >>>> sendmail when used on the command line sends mail via qpsmtpd.
> That is not what he said. He is referring to sending mail > via /usr/sbin/sendmail on the command line but he did not say via port > 25. You've snipped the part which he replied to where I was guessing > that it might be the case based on my memory of the behaviour of the > qmail package I installed ... but there were initially some weird > problems due to permissions also. Sorry - he actually said 'sends mail via qpsmtpd' and referred to having qpsmtpd listen on port 25. Since qpsmtpd doesn't have a local mail queue and only listens on a network port then by default the implication is via an SMTP daemon. > There *are* clients which use 'sendmail -bs' (for example, this > behaviour by pine and some others is documented on cr.yp.to/qmail). > > There are also examples in mailing lists using 'sendmail -f', which you > can find easily via google. Agreed. But it's not typical to see these used for general mail submission. >> Unless you replaced sendmail with some other mechanism your sendmail >> binary should deposit mail into your MTA's local mail queue. > > Yes it "should". But your "sendmail binary" is often a sym-link to > something else unless you are running sendmail and unless you check what > it really does, you can't be sure. From my brief review the (replacement) binaries provided by the Sendmail, Postfix, Exim, and qmail MTAs all default to local mail queue submission. You have to manually override to get other behaviour. And whilst perhaps sym-linked in a few different places - on Red Hat, SuSE, Mandriva, Gentoo and the two BSD variants I have running - the sendmail binary seems to be designed to mimic default Sendmail configuration/behaviour. Regards James Turnbull -- James Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Author of Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590596099/) Hardening Linux (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590594444/) --- PGP Key (http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x0C42DF40)
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