Re: Sendmail port

On Aug 8, 2006, at 5:53 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> On Aug 8, 2006, at 5:09 PM, Joe Auty wrote:
>> I have very specific reasons for wanting to install Sendmail in a  
>> test environment, and I see that neither DarwinPorts or Fink have  
>> a port.
>>
>> Does anybody have enough experience to know how hard it would be  
>> to develop a port of Sendmail given the opportunity to perhaps  
>> copy over pieces of the existing Postfix infrastructure  
>> preinstalled in OS X?
>
> I don't understand why a sendmail port would have to copy over  
> postfix installed pieces.
>
> Although if you have other software that wants 'genuine sendmail'  
> as /usr/sbin/sendmail, I could understand why you might want to do  
> that.
>
> It's pretty easy (for sendmail-specific values of easy) to build/ 
> install sendmail on Mac OS X (I've been doing it for a while, and  
> all my mail runs through sendmail ... since it was easier for me to  
> do it that way then learn a new MTA).
>
> I haven't tried building a port for it (and don't know if the build  
> infrastructure has destroot support or not), although I've thought  
> about doing it...
>



I was thinking that since some install guides I was looking at detail  
creating new directories for stuff, perhaps it might be easier to,  
instead of creating empty directories, copy over the virtual maps and  
alias information and such from the Postfix install, since it will be  
useful to provide examples to work off of, and to benefit users who  
want to migrate from Postfix to Sendmail.

Just a thought, perhaps its best just to provide end users a virgin  
install of Sendmail.







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