synaptic and "dpkg -l" says sendmail not installed.

Brian ad44 at cityscape.co.uk
Thu Aug 6 22:03:18 UTC 2009


On Thu 06 Aug 2009 at 13:57:44 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:

> "Locate sendmail" shows the program as being installed. Since I never 
> installed it I assume it was a default install by another program. Also, 
> since I have never installed a program except with synaptic or apt-get I 
> would expect send mail to show as installed. What am I missing?

Quoting from the exim4 manual:

> Like other MTAs, Exim replaces Sendmail, and is normally called by user
> agents (MUAs) using the path  /usr/sbin/sendmail  when  they  submit
> messages for delivery (some operating systems use /usr/lib/sendmail).
> This path is normally set up as a symbolic link to the Exim binary. It
> may also  be used by boot scripts to start the Exim daemon. Many of Exim's
> command line options are compatible with Sendmail so that it can act as a
> drop-in replacement.

Also:

brian at laptop:~$ ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2008-12-30 12:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> exim4




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