On Sat, 2007-06-01 at 02:42 +1100, James Turnbull wrote: > 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.
I never really doubted that this was correct but The original issue was breaking cron (or any other client) and the solution was using the "standard interface" /usr/sbin/sendmail. It does not matter how standard the interface is, if the critical client does not following the standard. -- --gh
