[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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