On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:48:03AM +0100, Holger Hecht wrote: > > Honestly though, I can't see (right off hand at least) why you wouldn't > > want to let it be done that way. What particular situation would > > require bypassing the sendmail binary, if I may ask? > The background is the following: > I try to arrange a mail system on OpenBSD 3.4. On this system, the apache is > chrooted by default (I know, I can turn it back, but they have done this for > a reason, I hope) and therefore I wanted to setup a chrooted sqwebmail. I > work with qmail, but it is not surprising, that sqwebmail in his jail does > not see the qmail-sendmail replacement. So it would be one solution, to send > the mail via smtp. Now I use another one. I set up a mini-qmail installation > in the chroot-environment, which talks to the real qmail server outside the > chroot and everything works fine.
That's a good solution. The reason why it wouldn't be a good idea for sqwebmail to send mail directly using SMTP, is because if the remote SMTP server were temporarily unavailable for any reason, the mail would be dropped on the floor; sqwebmail doesn't have its own mechanism for putting mails into a queue. Regards, Brian.
