Author: Kirill Ponomarew Date: To: exim-users New-Topics: [Exim] Openbsd 3.4 Mailer.conf Subject: [Exim] Re: Exim on OpenBSD 3.4/ Mailman
Karl R. Balsmeier wrote:
> Howdy Noble Exim List!
>
> I built Exim from ports using make, make install, make clean. I
> edited /etc/exim/configure with the appropriate entries listed in
> Mailman's README.Exim and README.OpenBSD files with regard to Exim 3
> directors & transports.
>
> I'm now looking to figure out:
>
> 1. Exim & Sendmail, I see that making a symlink is the method, rather
> than ripping out sendmail, per Phillip Hazel: "On a system where Exim is
> fully installed as a replacement for Sendmail, one or both of the paths
> /usr/lib/sendmail or /usr/sbin/sendmail is a symbolic link to the Exim
> binary. Therefore, any MUA, program, or script that attempts to send a
> message by calling Sendmail actually calls Exim.[3]"
>
> I translated this to mean:
>
> # ln -s /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/local/sbin/exim