Britton Kerin grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Hi folks, > > I know exim sometimes contains a sendmail binary because on one system I > get this: > > britt...@brittonkerin.com [~]# sendmail --version > Exim version 4.76 #1 built 26-Oct-2012 16:41:54 > Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2007 > Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.7.25: (April 4, 2012) > Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl OpenSSL Content_Scanning > DKIM Old_Demime Experimental_SPF Experimental_SRS > Lookups (built-in): lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch dbm > dbmnz passwd > Authenticators: cram_md5 dovecot plaintext spa > Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect > Transports: appendfile/maildir autoreply pipe smtp > Fixed never_users: 0 > Size of off_t: 8 > 2012-11-28 11:17:54 non-existent configuration file(s): > /etc/bh/exim/exim.conf > > But on my debian box (current stable distribution), there is no > /usr/bin/sendmail binary even though I have exim installed. There is a > /usr/sbin/sendmail binary, but it doesn't seem to be the same one because: > > $ /usr/sbin/sendmail --version > exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option --version > > I also found /usr/lib/sendmail but it does the same thing. > > Does anyone know what debian package provides the /usr/bin/sendmail program > or its equivalent like on the first system described?
I expect the Sendmail package probably has it. :-) But if you're
looking to avoid that, Postfix works well. If I recall correctly, it
was intended as a "drop in" replacement for the standard sendmail
program and does include a sendmail executable in the right place to
keep software that expects "sendmail" happy.
--Dave
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