sendmail replacement

[Matthew Seaman]

S.N.Grigoriev wrote:
> 
> 13.01.10, 14:29, "Miroslav Lachman" <000.fbsd at quip.cz>:
> 
>> S.N.Grigoriev wrote:
>>  
>>  [...]
>>  
>>  > I thank you for your response. All you wrote is quite right.
>>  > But it is a general rule not to use in the system two sets
>>  > of slightly different programs with duplicating names. It is
>>  > a direct way to have problems.
>>  >
>>  > For example, all third party scripts should be revised to check
>>  > absolute pathes, program search results becomes depending
>>  > of the PATH value, and so on.
>>  >
>>  > It is relatively easy to do such revisions on a small home system.
>>  > But a production server with significant amount of third party software
>>  > will require a lot of time to do that job.
>>  >
>>  > To my mind it will be better to have an options in the port Makefile
>>  > allowing to replace the sendmail files in place.
>>  
>>  I fully understand your doubts, but if you are talking about PATH and 
>>  the stuff, sendmail from PATH (/usr/sbin/sendmail) is not a real 
>>  sendmail, it is symlink to wrapper using settings from 
>>  /etc/mail/mailer.conf.
>>  No application can be confused.
>>  
>>  Miroslav Lachman
>>  
>>  
> 
> Miroslav,
> 
> absolute paths may be used not ony to start sendmail program but,
> for example, to automatically build .mc files from .m4 files in 
> /usr/share/sendmail/cf directory. For port sendmail it becomes
> /usr/local/share/sendmail/cf

Unless you set a couple of variables in /etc/make.conf as I described.

	Matthew

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