Re: [Exim] FW: Installing exim and removing sendmail

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Author: Nigel Metheringham
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To: Exim-Users
Subject: Re: [Exim] FW: Installing exim and removing sendmail
ph10@??? said:
> I discovered (only last week) that FreeBSD uses /usr/sbin/sendmail and
> not /usr/lib/sendmail as its standard location for the MTA.


This is fairly standard.... most recent unix variants (that do not feel
the need for excessive backward compatibility), do not have executables
(directly) in /usr/lib (there may be directories with executables).

/usr/sbin is the right location for an MTA - not really a direct user
program, not needed on root partition.

Most if not all linux distros put their MTA (using a sendmail type API)
at /usr/sbin/sendmail

    Nigel.
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