On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Guy Hulbert wrote:
On Sat, 2007-06-01 at 01:59 +1100, James Turnbull wrote:
sendmail when used on the command line sends mail via qpsmtpd.
I believe that to be a false (i.e. incorrect) statement. I don't
know of
any sendmail which injects mail into the local queue via SMTP. It's
certainly not the case with the sendmail provided by qmail.
That is not what he said.
You can see exactly what he said, since I've quoted it. qpsmtpd only
receives mail via SMTP, so he is/was implying that sendmail sends via
SMTP. Which is false (at least in all common setups).
Neither do I - Postfix for example drops mail from sendmail into the
maildrop queue - not into the SMTP daemon.
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.
Fair enough.
