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Re: email servers



On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 12:35:54PM -0600, ChadDavis wrote:
> And sendmail is an MTA?  Sendmail hands it off to postfix?

Sendmail used to be *the* MTA, so many programs coded back in the day 
hardcoded the assumption that they could use /usr/sbin/sendmail to 
inject mail for delivery.

MTAs nowadays provide their own /usr/sbin/sendmail replacement for 
compatibility with programs that still use that interface.



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