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FreeBSD has implemented a setup whereby the commonly known mail-related
binaries have been replaced by a wrapper script that checks a configuration
file to determine which program to actually execute. This makes it fairly
easy to substitute exim for sendmail; particularly since exim does a pretty
good job of accepting sendmail's command-line parameters.
However, there is one small fly in the ointment. FreeBSD also has a
seriesof scripts run nightly, one of which checks the mail queue via
mailq. Unfortunately it uses the '-Ac' parameter to request that mailq
"Show the mail submission queue specified in /etc/mail/submit.cf instead
of the MTA queue speci-fied in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf." That parameter
is not recognized by exim and causes exim to abandon the run.
I am submitting a bug report to FreeBSD to request a mechanism to override
that parameter; but I think it would also be a good idea if exim were to
recognize and ignore the '-Ac' parameter in the interest of compatability.
Thanks,
-Pat
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