[Dovecot] Default sendmail_path value
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Tue Jun 28 03:19:57 EEST 2011
On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 16:43 -0700, Joseph Tam wrote:
> It appears the documentation of this parameter is inconsistent with the
> documentation:
>
> > grep -nF /sendmail `gfind src -type f`
> src/lib-lda/lda-settings.c:41: .sendmail_path = "/usr/sbin/sendmail",
> src/config/all-settings.c:732: .sendmail_path = "/usr/sbin/sendmail",
>
> (and doc/example-config/conf.d/15-lda.conf is also consistent with
> this)
This should be correct.
> but the documentations states
>
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA
>
> sendmail_path is used to send mails. Note that the default is
> /usr/lib/sendmail, which doesn't necessarily work the same as
> /usr/sbin/sendmail.
>
> I don't know which ought to be changed though.
It used to be /usr/lib/sendmail, but some people complained that it's
obsolete now and /usr/sbin/sendmail should be used, so I changed it in
v2.0.
I changed the wiki2 now.
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