[Dovecot] Default sendmail_path value

Joseph Tam jtam.home at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 04:21:26 EEST 2011


Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 16:43 -0700, Joseph Tam wrote:
>> ...
>> 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.
>
> 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.

Thanks.  Solaris still uses /usr/lib/sendmail which is a pain since /usr/lib
is rarely in shell search paths.  Nothing a few symlinks can't fix.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>


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