[OpenIndiana-discuss] Help, please! Starting to use postfix in an OI151_a5 environment, from scratch

[Chris Ridd]

On 16 Jul 2012, at 13:31, Gary Gendel wrote:

> What I do is to take the time to backup the /usr/lib/sendmail for all three programs and then do a symbolic link to the one needed (in my case it's postfix).  The reason I do this is that, since sendmail is part of the consolidation, this binary is sometimes overwritten when you upgrade OI.  There is a plan somewhere to handle wholesale replacement of sendmail with another MTA better, but I don't know what the current state is.

It looks like IPS does have a solution for handling alternative versions of a tool - package mediators. It is done with symlinks and annotations in the pkg manifests.

Is the intention to use mediators?

Chris
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