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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