Linking /var/qmail/bin/sendmail ensures backwards capatibility with older
programs / scripts that use the old sendmail. Using /var/qmail/bin/sendmail
in your script is the same as the link /usr/lib/sendmail.
Reid Sutherland
Network Administrator
ISYS Technology Inc.
http://www.isys.ca
Fingerprint: 1683 001F A573 B6DF A074 0C96 DBE0 A070 28BE EEA5
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Poynor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, July 12, 1999 11:40 PM
Subject: RE: Using qmail with CGI feedback form - needing reference
>I nuked anything that smelled of sendmail. Trying to avoid it's ghost also.
>qmails Sendmail requirements seem redundant to me. That is I don't want to
>create sendmail symbolic links when it's not necessary.
>
>Perhaps a future FAQ item could mention form mail sending injects to
>/var/qmail/bin/sendmail.
>
>Now I see someone is saying it should be /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject. Are
>these the same thing?
>
>Thanks,
>DAN
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Reid Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 1:28 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Using qmail with CGI feedback form - needing reference
>
>
>As per the qmail install doc, you must link /usr/lib/sendmail to
>/var/qmail/bin/sendmail.
>(ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail)
>I've used multiple form mailers, and they all work fine with qmail's
>sendmail replacement.
>
>
>
>Reid Sutherland
>Network Administrator
>ISYS Technology Inc.
>http://www.isys.ca
>Fingerprint: 1683 001F A573 B6DF A074 0C96 DBE0 A070 28BE EEA5
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan Poynor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Monday, July 12, 1999 4:29 PM
>Subject: RE: Using qmail with CGI feedback form - needing reference
>
>
>>Setting my CGI form variable to $mailprog = '/var/qmail/bin/sendmail'
seems
>>to work fine. No symbolic links necessary. Maybe your symbolic links are
>>mandatory for other processes?
>>
>>I am surprised I can't locate documentation referencing use of form mail
>>with qmail.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>DAN
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Markus Stumpf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 2:43 PM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Re: Using qmail with CGI feedback form - needing reference
>>
>>
>>On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 11:39:03PM +0200, Markus Stumpf wrote:
>>> I have a symb.link (which is kinda mandatory for systems running qmail)
>>> from /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /var/qmail/sendmail
>>
>>*ARGL*
>>That should read
>> /var/qmail/bin/sendmail
>> ****
>>of course :/
>>
>> \Maex
>>--
>>SpaceNet GmbH | http://www.Space.Net/ | Yeah, yo mama
>>dresses
>>Research & Development | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | you funny and you
>>need
>>Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Tel: +49 (89) 32356-0 | a mouse to delete
>>files
>>D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 |
>>
>>
>
>
>
