On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 10:50:46PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:29:28AM -0700, John Beck wrote:
> > First, thanks for the review!
> >
> >
> > JBeck> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~jbeck/mailwrapper/
> >
> > Danek> Could you talk a bit about how a second / different MTA would
> > interact
> > Danek> with mailwrapper? I'm a bit confused about how mailer.conf delivers
> > Danek> sendmail-specific configuration, but the sendmail package delivers
> > Danek> generic links to mailwrapper; that seems backwards to me. Plus I
> > don't
> > Danek> see how installing, say, postfix, would switch (or allow a switch)
> > the
> > Danek> system to the new MTA.
> >
> > You would install the second / different MTA wherever, then update
> > mailer.conf
> > to point to its installation. From the discussion that you, Bart and I had
> > in
> > your office just now, I will defer the following suggestions to Ceri (though
> > I will note that I see your arguments for them and I don't have any
> > arguments
> > against them):
> >
> > * Perhaps the usr/lib/sendmail sym-link should be moved from SUNWsndmu to
> > SUNWmailwrapper?
> > * Perhaps etc/mail/mailer.conf should be changed to a sym-link with the
> > default target being etc/mail/mailer.conf-sendmail (which would be
> > provided
> > by SUNWsndmr), and sendmail's start method script would be responsible for
> > making sure the sym-link target was correct? Likewise, other MTAs would
> > have their start method scripts change the sym-link target to their own
> > mailer.conf, e.g., etc/mail/mailer.conf-postfix .
>
> I'll have a think about these and reply over the weekend.
I haven't forgotten about this, but am completely snowed under at the
moment. I hope to get back to everyone soon, my apologies.
Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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