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Re: Please consider replace src/dist/nvi with nvi2
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 05:46:02AM -0500, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
>> periodic, cron... too many things sends email to users. Could you tell
>> me how NetBSD deal with these?
>
> Programs invoke /usr/sbin/sendmail and pipe the mail to it.
> There is a configuration file (/etc/mailer.conf) which tells the program
> how to deal with mail. Typical setup:
>
> sendmail /usr/pkg/sbin/mini_sendmail -smail
> send-mail /usr/pkg/sbin/mini_sendmail -smail
>
> which means that the pkgsrc mini_sendmail is invoked and told to forward
> the mail vial smtp to host "mail".
>
> Martin
I see... I'm going to make a fallback, and add -odb to both the
fallback and the virecover script. Not sure whether the -odq is safe
here. MTAs that do not support these options are supposed to ignore
them, right?
--
Zhihao Yuan, nickname lichray
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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