Filip Tsachev wrote:
> What if sendmails is not installed. Tools like logwatch will pickup another
> available MTA or?
If there *is* another available MTA. Postfix, at least, has a
sendmail-compatible user interface -- it uses /etc/alias and newalias in
the way that's been described, and provides a /usr/sbin/sendmail and
/usr/lib/sendmail that understand "real" sendmail's options. On Fedora,
this is provided through the alternatives system, so you can have both
installed and only one active at a time, or if only one is installed, it
will Just Work.
I believe that Exim works the same way, and other outgoing-only MTAs
will still implement as much of a /usr/sbin/sendmail as makes sense.
If there is no MTA, then there's nothing that can send e-mail using SMTP
(apart from user-mode clients with a radically different interface), so
the mail can't go anywhere.
Hope this helps,
James.
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