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Date:      Sun, 26 May 2002 19:10:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: misc/38579: daily/440.status-mailq uses sendmail-specific '-Ac' parameter
Message-ID:  <200205270210.g4R2A3X92270@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR misc/38579; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Pat Lashley <patl+freebsd@phoenix.volant.org>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/38579: daily/440.status-mailq uses sendmail-specific '-Ac' parameter
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 04:18:51 +0300

 On 2002-05-26 12:02, Pat Lashley wrote:
 > The mailwrapper system makes it easy to substitute alternate MTAs
 > for sendmail under most circumstances; but the 440.status-mailq
 > script in /etc/periodic/daily uses the sendmail-specific '-Ac' flag
 > to mailq.
 >
 > Install the exim-imapd port.  Set up mailer.conf to refer to the
 > exim binary instead of sendmail.  Run the daily periodic script.
 >
 > I think the best solution would be to make the mailq parameters come
 > from a shell variable that can be overridden in /etc/periodic.conf.
 
 Or just add something like mailq-local to mailer.conf like this?
 
 	mailq-local		/usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail -q -Ac
 
 Then mailq-local can be called by 440.status-mailq ;-)
 
 - Giorgos
 

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