Re: NetBSD master CVS tree commits

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

Michael Graff writes:
> "Erik E. Fair" <fair%clock.org@localhost> writes:
> 
> > All of the "alternative" mail systems that I have looked at have a
> > "sendmail" compatible command line interface (i.e. a /usr/lib/sendmail that
> > looks & smells like it, but is an interface), because that (aside from
> > /bin/mail) has been the "standard" UNIX mailer long enough that people code
> > against it.
> 
> Wait...  Was the change to use /bin/mail, or /usr/sbin/sendmail?  If the
> former, I think that is ok.  If the latter, I disagree.  I do not want
> to constantly replace /usr/sbin/sendmail with the qmail binary.  I strongly
> believe in seperation of who owns what, and /usr/sbin is owned by the
> NetBSD installation.

/usr/bin/mail, which gets called by your cron scripts, calls sendmail.

You need the qmail /usr/sbin/sendmail to make things work anyway.

Perry