[CentOS] Apache wakes-up inactive Exim

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Always Learning <centos at u62.u22.net> wrote:
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>> > sendmail is a link to exim on most exim systems (like mine, though mine is
>> Ubuntu).
>>
>> cliffp at ubuntu:~$ which sendmail
>> /usr/sbin/sendmail
>> cliffp at ubuntu:~$ file `which sendmail`
>> /usr/sbin/sendmail: symbolic link to `exim4'
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> C 5.10 & C 6.5
>
>  file `which sendmail`
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> /usr/sbin/sendmail: symbolic link to `/etc/alternatives/mta'
>
> strings /etc/alternatives/mta |grep exim
>
> produces Exim lines. No results for Postfix or for Sendmail.
>
> Thanks. I learned something new today.

Not exactly... Applications that pipe to the sendmail command line
program to send messages go back to the dawn of email.   MTAs that
replace the 'real' sendmail pretty much have to provide that
functionality.

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    Les Mikesell
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