Question on Fedora's RPM of Mailmail and Sendmail

[Todd Zullinger]

Ben Kamen wrote:
>> There is a sendmail link in /usr/lib/sendmail though, so it would
>> be fine if that's the path that mailman used.
>
> I did a locate, but now I just did a specific ls -l.. wow - talk
> about softlink hell. What has FC come to? (sigh)

FWIW, those symlinks are from the alternatives system, which was
ported from Debian.  Between that and the odd history that leaves
programs to expect to find sendmail in /usr/lib, it is a tangled web.

(BTW, if you do file a bug, would you mind posting it back to this
thread?  I'm curious to follow it.  Thanks.)

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