On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:40:17PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
[...]
> I've read the man page and says sendmail, purgestat, etc. are supposed to be
> symlinks to mailwrapper. In this case, they were discrete files differing
> in size and content from mailwrapper and those installed by postfix.
>
> From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 12:57:21AM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
>
> > /usr/bin/mail tries to run /usr/sbin/sendmail directly.
> This probably isn't
> > a good idea, since IIRC sendmail can now be package-ized
> and removed from
> > the base
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 12:57:21AM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> /usr/bin/mail tries to run /usr/sbin/sendmail directly. This probably isn't
> a good idea, since IIRC sendmail can now be package-ized and removed from
> the base system as well as excluded from buildworld. This is what seems to
>
I use postfix for my mail servers, rather than sendmail. Postfix installs
the sendmail-replacement programs under /usr/local. The programs from
contrib/sendmail are under /usr, so you end up with two copies of these
programs when postfix is installed. To avoid prevent security issues and
other p
