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Subject: Re: Postfix and Web forms redux...
From: Michael Tokarev (mjttls.msk.ru)
Date: Wed Dec 06 2000 - 10:49:18 CST

On linux, postfix usually puts it's sendmail compatibility interface
program to /usr/sbin/sendmail, not to /usr/bin/sendmail, -- use this
one. And check if it is postfix's one, not that from sendmail.
/usr/sbin/postfix is for controlling postfix daemons, not to
send mail.

Regards,
 Michael.

Groups wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been running a Linux server with postfix handling all the work for the
> virtual accounts with no problem. Now however, I need to put web based
> forms on one of our virtual hosts, and since switching over from sendmail,
> can't get it to work.
>
> previously, I was using the simple formmail.pl (from Matt's Script Archive)
> to do this work, and it was fine. Now, no dice. I've tried changing
> formmail.pl to point to postfix, by changing
>
> $mailprog = '/usr/bin/sendmail'
>
> to
>
> $mailprog = '/usr/sbin/postfix'
>
> without any luck. Am I missing any other config changes? Can anyone
> recommend some way to either a) get formmail.pl to work with postfix, or b)
> use another method to get web based forms working with postfix.
>
> The system I'm running is a RedHat Linux 6.1, apache 1.3.12 on a Pentium Pro
> 180.
>
> Thanx in advance.