Re: restrictions on local posted emails ?

From: Ralf Hildebrandt (no email)
Date: Sat Feb 02 2002 - 08:01:27 EST


On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 12:30:08PM +0100, Nils Vogels wrote:

> That will certainly not work, since the postfix sendmail binary talks
> internally to other postfix daemons to notify them of new incoming
> email. When you replace that with the original sendmail, this
> functionality will go away, and you will have 2 MTA's on one system,
> possibly frustrating eachother.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have a solution for you at this point, but IMHO
> using 2 MTA's on one system will cause you headaches. What if you use
> the original sendmail to deliver mail from a local user to a local user
> ? Will you maintain two virtual user tables, alias tables, etc etc ..
>
> You could always look for a small script/program on STDIN and then
> connects to an SMTP daemon

Use mini_sendmail or msendmail

Alternatively, wait for a sendmail program, which speaks SMTP (Wietse
wanted to implement that, due to the faster injection of messages).

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