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Re: which package has a binary like this sendmail one in exim?



On Mi, 28 nov 12, 09:42:31, Britton Kerin wrote:
> 
> But on my debian box (current stable distribution), there is no
> /usr/bin/sendmail binary even though I have exim installed.  There is a
> /usr/sbin/sendmail binary, but it doesn't seem to be the same one because:
> 
>   $ /usr/sbin/sendmail --version
>   exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option --version

It seems to me that you are not using the correct parameter. Did you 
check the manpage?
 
> I also found /usr/lib/sendmail but it does the same thing.

With postfix this is just a symlink to /usr/sbin/sendmail, probably the 
same in your case.

> Does anyone know what debian package provides the /usr/bin/sendmail program
> or its equivalent like on the first system described?

Are you sure it's not /usr/sbin/sendmail?

$ apt-file search /usr/bin/sendmail
sendpage-client: /usr/bin/sendmail2snpp

$ apt-file search /usr/sbin/sendmail
citadel-mta: /usr/sbin/sendmail
courier-mta: /usr/sbin/sendmail
dma: /usr/sbin/sendmail
esmtp-run: /usr/sbin/sendmail
exim4-daemon-heavy: /usr/sbin/sendmail
exim4-daemon-light: /usr/sbin/sendmail
lsb-invalid-mta: /usr/sbin/sendmail
masqmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
msmtp-mta: /usr/sbin/sendmail
nullmailer: /usr/sbin/sendmail
postfix: /usr/sbin/sendmail
qmail-run: /usr/sbin/sendmail
sendmail-base: /usr/sbin/sendmailconfig
ssmtp: /usr/sbin/sendmail
xmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail

Kind regards,
Andrei
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