nullmailer alternative

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

* Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de> [20070911 15:49]:
> * Alain Spineux <aspineux at gmail.com> [20070906 19:05]:
> > 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 ?
> 
> This doesn't work with Kolab server 2.0.x, because postfix/main.cf
> wasn't readable with this version due to passwords being stored in
> the file.
> 
> With server 2.1 this should be no longer a problem, so feel free to
> adjust the wiki page for this detail.

Oh, of course you can only use the symlink on the Kolab server
itself, while nullmailer and friends can be used on other machines
in the LAN.

Thomas

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