nullmailer alternative

[Gunnar Wrobel]

"Alain Spineux" <aspineux at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Indeed :) Sorry for the noise...

> 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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