On 5/16/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Ryan Anderson <ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I think, in practice, that /usr/lib/sendmail will exist anywhere you hve > something running on port 25, at least on unixy machines.
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exim, postfix and friends?
/usr/sbin/sendmail is there for any current MTA, so if qmail, exim, postfix, sendmail and all MTAs I can think of install a working sendmail binary. Newish desktop-targetted distros (and MacOSX) are leaning towards not running an MTA on port 25 any more unless you ask them for it. They'll do crontab-driven queue flushes, so the messages you feed to /usr/sbin/sendmail will be sent a few minutes later. That is why IMHO /usr/sbin/sendmail is a better default than localhost:25, but I can live with either ;-)
I used to know somebody who port-forwarded 25/tcp to central smtp server from smaller machines in her intranet installation,
I can understand that, but I think the changes in unixy distros mentioned above make it unnecessary today. cheers, martin - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html