[OpenIndiana-discuss] sendmail on oi 151_a9

[Gary Mills]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 09:22:03AM -0700, Claus Assmann wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014, Gary Mills wrote:
> 
> >     online         Oct_02   svc:/network/smtp:sendmail
> >     online         Oct_02   svc:/network/sendmail-client:default
> 
> > I used mailx for my test.  It invokes sendmail to write to the
> > client queue.  The client daemon then reads that queue and writes
> > to the server queue.  The files will stay there because the server
> 
> The client writes to the server queue?
> 
> That's a really weird setup... only the server is supposed to
> write to that queue.

Nope, it's nothing weird, just a faulty recollection of how I did
my testing several years ago.  I realize now that the two sendmail
processes only communicate with eachother through SMTP.

The files in the server queue must have been left there by a previous
sendmail run in which the authentication failed.  I was testing two
executables, one of which was not built with SASL libraries.

> PS: the simplest way to test what the server does is to use
> sendmail -Am ...
> (requires root).

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