How does Sendmail know how it was invoked?

RW fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com
Sat Aug 4 11:06:39 PDT 2007


mailwrapper checks to see how it was invoked and then looks up the
appropriate command in mailer.conf.   All of the entries in mailer.conf point
to /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail, so how does that binary know what
it's supposed to do.

I'm just curious.


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