sendmail replacement

[Miroslav Lachman]

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