[CentOS] Apache wakes-up inactive Exim

Mon Sep 29 02:01:33 UTC 2014
John R. Dennison <jrd at gerdesas.com>

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 02:52:45AM +0100, Always Learning wrote:
> 
> Sendmail is not present on the server. Exim is the only MTA. Exim awoke,
> forwarded the email then became inactive (not running) again.

He didn't say sendmail the package was present; he said sendmail the
command.

rpm -qvl exim | grep sendmail

Those targets are used by the alternatives system and provide backwards
compatibility with the _industry standard_ of /usr/sbin/sendmail and
/usr/lib/sendmail, which are expected interfaces.

> 
> I was curious how a non-running Exim can be run, solely to forward mail,
> then returned to its inactive state. I assume some system software
> identified the PHP outgoing email, and launched the only MTA installed
> (Exim) just to handle the outgoing email.

exim sends mail by default; nothing needs to be running to do so.






							John
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