On 2007-01-05 10:57:47 -0500, Guy Hulbert wrote:
> 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.

No. That was not "the solution". The claim was that cron cannot be
broken by removing qmail-smtpd, since cron uses /usr/sbin/sendmail.
So there is no problem and therefore no "solution" is necessary.

> It does not matter how standard the interface is, if the critical client
> does not following the standard.

But it does.

        hp

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