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Jan 29, 2002, 4:03 AM
Paul
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Hmmm I'm a bit of a qmail newbie and was wondering if it can be used in the same way as sendmail from perl scripts?

I've looked at their faq but it doesn't mention anything.

I've tried to install sendmail but it won't let me whilst qmail is installed. Ugh.
Jan 29, 2002, 4:44 AM
Wil
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Jan 29, 2002, 4:44 AM
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Yes. qmail and smail put symbolic links or an alias to the general sendmail paths by default. i.e., your qmail or smail setup will also be able to be accessed via /var/lib/sendmail. It will just point to qmail instead of sendmail.

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Jan 29, 2002, 5:57 AM
Paul
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When I locate sendmail from ssh I see:

/usr/sbin/sendmail
/var/qmail/bin/sendmail

....so it looks like it should already work using either of those paths. I'll have a play later.
Jan 29, 2002, 8:08 AM
Wil
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Jan 29, 2002, 8:08 AM
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Yes. If the default installation went smoothly then it should run 'straight-out-of-the-box' as they say.

Playing around with the new server, huh? :-)

- wil
Jan 29, 2002, 4:26 PM
Alex
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Jan 29, 2002, 4:26 PM
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/usr/sbin/sendmail is a sym link to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail. /var/qmail/bin/sendmail is just a tiny wrapper to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject, which is the way to normally insert mail via qmail.

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Jan 30, 2002, 1:54 AM
Paul
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Jan 30, 2002, 1:54 AM
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So I should still be able to send mail from perl scripts using /usr/sbin/sendmail as normal?....because I'm not sure it is working.
Jan 30, 2002, 2:49 AM
Wil
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Jan 30, 2002, 2:49 AM
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You should be able to, yes.

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Mar 28, 2002, 3:04 AM
Prix
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Mar 28, 2002, 3:04 AM
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Yes...you can create a sim link to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail

That's will work like the orginal sendmail.

I use this on my server, Qmail + VpopMail.

:p