On Sat, 2007-06-01 at 01:59 +1100, James Turnbull wrote: > >> sendmail when used on the command line sends mail via qpsmtpd. > > > > I believe that to be a false (i.e. incorrect) statement. I don't > know of > > any sendmail which injects mail into the local queue via SMTP. It's > > certainly not the case with the sendmail provided by qmail.
That is not what he said. He is referring to sending mail via /usr/sbin/sendmail on the command line but he did not say via port 25. You've snipped the part which he replied to where I was guessing that it might be the case based on my memory of the behaviour of the qmail package I installed ... but there were initially some weird problems due to permissions also. There *are* clients which use 'sendmail -bs' (for example, this behaviour by pine and some others is documented on cr.yp.to/qmail). There are also examples in mailing lists using 'sendmail -f', which you can find easily via google. > > Neither do I - Postfix for example drops mail from sendmail into the > maildrop queue - not into the SMTP daemon. > > Unless you replaced sendmail with some other mechanism your sendmail > binary should deposit mail into your MTA's local mail queue. Yes it "should". But your "sendmail binary" is often a sym-link to something else unless you are running sendmail and unless you check what it really does, you can't be sure. -- --gh
