# [OmniOS-discuss] Mail server package for OmniOS?

Lauri Tirkkonen lotheac at iki.fi
Fri Jul 5 09:00:07 UTC 2013

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    On Fri, Jul 05 2013 10:39:54 +0200, Steffen Kram wrote:
    > Theres one problem in using postfix over the provided sendmail. Some
    > core packages depend on a sendmail installation e.g. smtp-notify. In
    > this case I also provide a modified version (changed sendmail
    > dependency to optional) for smtp-notify but I'm not quite satisfied
    > that I have to repackage such basic system packages to throw out
    > sendmail dependencies.
    >
    > Maybe, it would be possible to enable such packages to be used with
    > other mta-implementations. It's not a problem on servers that do not
    > run a mta … but if you run postfix anyway, you do not want an
    > additional sendmail, but you may want things like smtp-notify for your
    > hardware/system errors.

    I'd like to see this as well. I package postfix myself (because I want
    to use /usr prefix for packaged software :), but I can't install it at
    the same time as sendmail since both ship a 'sendmail' binary. IPS has
    mediations that can solve the problem, but I don't know if you can make
    packages depend on a mediation; that would allow choosing other MTA
    implementations (provided that sendmail then also participated in the
    mediation).

    --
    Lauri Tirkkonen

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