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Re: Plausibility of sendmail?
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: 2004年2月10日 22:25:15 -0800
- Subject: Re: Plausibility of sendmail?
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <003a01c3f06604ドルc8e130$c901a8c0@macross>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Joaquin wrote:
> > But Exim provides a sendmail-compatible interface, and a
> > symlink to /usr/sbin/sendmail. Anything that expects to call
> > sendmail from the command line should work fine with Exim,
> > including all those perl modules. Even if you are doing
> > something obscure that absolutely requires sendmail, then you
> > should still be able to develop and test the other 99% of the
> > app on your laptop with Exim, without any actual sendmail.
>
> That is great. I didn't know that. This will help.
>
> Also, out of curiosity are the mails archived the same way as well?
Are you referring to local delivery? Exim by default delivers to
standard 'mbox' files in /var/spool for local users, just like
sendmail. However, it could be configured for other formats like
Maildir (with a managed mount), or processed with procmail, forwarded,
piped, etc. Basically all the standard unix mail things are supported.
Brian
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