nullmailer alternative

[Alain Spineux]

On 9/10/07, Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> wrote:
> "Alain Spineux" <aspineux at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hello
> > The Kolab wiki suggest to use nullmailer  to provide basic sendmail
> > functionalities.
> >
> > I used to make a link between the kolab sendmail and the "OS" sendmail, this way
> > # ln -sf /kolab/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
> > This is quick, simple (no configuration required) and get the same function.
> >
> > Any comments ?
>
> I never required this so far so I was not aware that the default
> /kolab/sbin/sendmail provided by postfix cannot always be used. What
> are the problems when using it? Probably that it tries to check for an
> existing user account, right? Or are there other problems? Maybe it
> would be easier to define the necessary accounts as an alias for
> postfix.

I thing you miss understood my question.
I said /kolab/sbin/sendmail is the good one to use.

The problem is that some native OS services and commands will try to
send email using /usr/sbin/sendmail, this command will inject the mail in the
disabled native MTA queue and not the Kolab one. These emails will never reach
their destination!

The wiki suggest to install nullmailer that provide a /usr/sbin/sendmail command
that will try to use local port 25 to send email.
And I suggest to directly use the kolab sendmail command
/kolab/sbin/sendmail instead of nullmailer.



Regards




>
> Cheers,
>
> Gunnar
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