Actually, at the time I was using it at least (which is long in the past), qmail did/does purposefully ignore most sendmail-isms that other MTAs do not such as an /etc/aliases file. Good to see that reality doesn't correlate with my memory in terms of a compatible delivery agent. I wonder when that changed, or if it was always that way, and I just assumed it wasn't. John On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 04:35:29PM +0100, tiago.pascoalat_private wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:22:11AM -0400, John Viega wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 10:02:21PM -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > > > > > > And second, it's a CGI. CGI runs over a Web server. Web servers used the > > > HTTP protocol. The HTTP protocol is implemented over TCP/IP. > > > > Actually, it wouldn't be too hard to proxy to a slightly modified HTTP > > server on a box without TCP/IP (say, over a serial connection). > > > > Also, you can imagine boxes with TCP/IP, but firewall rules that > > forbid direct outbound mail connections, except from one SMTP relay > > box. If you're not going to invoke the local mail delivery agent > > (which should know about the relay), you've got another complexity. > > > > > And, anyway, involking sendmail may be the standard, if by that you mean > > > "the most common". It's not the only MTA avalible. I myself don't use it. > > > > Most MTAs do provide sendmail compatability. The only one I know of > > that doesn't is qmail. If you run qmail, you know the risks, and you > > since when??? > > helsinquia:~ # ls -al /usr/sbin/sendmail > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Mar 21 18:57 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> > /var/qmail/bin/sendmail > > -- > Tiago Pascoal > Software Engineer > Altitude Software (formerly Easyphone) > > tiago.pascoalat_private > www.altitude.com > > + 351 217 20 50 00 main > + 351 217 20 50 90 fax > > Av. dos Combatentes 43, 8 > 1600 Lisbon, PORTUGAL > > The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting > than the question of whether a submarine can swim. > --Edsgar W. Dijkstra
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