On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Jeffrey Laramie wrote: > On Wednesday 01 October 2008 09:17:33 stuart smith wrote: > > Thanks for the prompt reply Jeffrey. I had done the replacement of > > sendmail with the xmail versions. I followed your handbook to build my > > original server and figured as it worked, I'd do the same with this one. > > > > Am I right in saying that I should just disable the sendmail startup > > completely and just rely on xmail? If so this sounds like a lovely clean > > solution. > > That's correct. By default XMail starts it's own sendmail process. These days > many distros also enable postfix by default, so make sure that postfix is > also disabled. If either of the distro's sendmail or postfix daemons start > before XMail they will bind to port 25 and prevent the XMail sendmail process > from starting. If you run XMail in debug mode you should see the XMail > sendmail porcess start.
Let's clarify this because it may lead to confusion. The Sendmail MTA uses a single binary called 'sendmail' for both mail delivery (meant as interface with the user) and daemon. XMail's sendmail binary is simply an interface with the real XMail binary (that act as a daemon). So XMail has one binary for the daemon, and one for the mail delivery interface towards the user. Same configuration pretty much used by all other-than-sendmail MTAs on GNU/Linux systems. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
