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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