Not building Sendmail

Neil Ford neil at ourshack.com
Mon Apr 2 15:14:47 BST 2001


On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 12:02:51PM +0100, Paul Richards wrote:
> 
> If you want to save a bit of time during make world then it's worth it, 
> otherwise it makes no difference. Postfix installs into /usr/local and 
> sendmail installs into /usr/libexec. The mail wrapper code (configured in 
> /etc/mail/mail.conf) determines which one is used when you run the 
> "standard" binaries like /usr/sbin/sendmail so they can both co-exist quite 
> happily.
> 
Thanks for the clarification. One thing though, would setting this option stop
mergemaster from trying to replace /etc/mail/mailer.conf with the sendmail
version? It's not a big hassle to remember to say no to mergemaster but the
less thing you have to remember the better I say :-)

Neil.




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