27 Mar
2002
27 Mar
'02
3:20 p.m.
"RJ" == Ron Jarrell <jarrell@vt.edu> writes:
RJ> Ah, I see what's going on.. configure changed between 2.0.5
RJ> and 2.1; in 2.0.5 it just checks "other mail demon" for
RJ> possible groups - and at the time I reviewed that, and
RJ> realized it'd make the right choice. in 2.1 it now checks
RJ> "mailman other mail demon", which causes it to guess wrong,
RJ> because while mailman is the group I want all mailman procs
RJ> running under, sendmail runs in a different group...
Yeah, I made this change because it makes Postfix installation much easier. With that MTA, you want your mail programs running under user.group mailman, so that default makes the most sense (i.e. a simple "configure ; make install" Just Works).
Am I being too biased towards Postfix to the detriment of other MTAs?
-Barry