On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 18:37 -0400, Ron Guerin wrote: > > I just conferred with a Fedora Ambassador, and though he says Fedora > itself uses Postfix, he's as horrified as I am to discover Sendmail > seems to be the default MTA in Fedora. The horror. The horror. If I > can find out how this travesty happened I'll pass it along. > > - Ron
This is from the draft deployment guide for Fedora 13: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-email-mta.html ====================================================================================================================== 13.3. Mail Transport Agents Fedora includes two primary MTAs: Sendmail and Postfix. Postfix is configured as the default MTA, although it is easy to switch the default MTA to Sendmail. ====================================================================================================================== Earlier in this thread I asked how I could determine which MTA my Fedora 13 PC was actually running. I subsequently found an article on serverfault.com which provided an answer. Their solution was to determine which process is listening on port 25. They gave a variety of methods to do this. http://serverfault.com/questions/100730/identifying-which-mta-is-running This is the result from my Fedora PC: ================================================================================================== [r...@localhost ~]# lsof -i :25 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME sendmail 1092 root 4u IPv4 12309 0t0 TCP localhost.localdomain:smtp (LISTEN) [r...@localhost ~]# ps p 1092 PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1092 ? Ss 0:02 sendmail: accepting connections [r...@localhost ~]# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.4/8.14.4; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 21:44:35 -0400 telnet> quit Connection closed. [r...@localhost ~]# netstat -ltnp |grep :25 tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1092/sendmail: acce [r...@localhost ~]# lsof -n -i :25 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME sendmail 1092 root 4u IPv4 12309 0t0 TCP 127.0.0.1:smtp (LISTEN) ======================================================================================================= They said postfix would look like this: # ps p 5664 PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 5664 ? Ss 0:12 /usr/lib/postfix/master Is the deployment guide wrong or is the wrapper on postfix really deceptive? _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Nov 3 - Open Source Hardware: Bugs, Beagles and Beyond Dec 1 - IBM's Open Client Deployment Jan 5 - Building a Comunity Site with Drupal
