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It uses the MTA installed.
Are they th installed?
sendmail and postfix ?
both are installed but not sure how to check which are running.
Should it make a difference?
If it works from the command line, how come I don't get anything when run from the crontab?
But logwatch uses sendmail doesn't it?
Like I said, the command works, just not when run from crontab?! Strange
Same error as before:
Aug 12 11:44:22 localhost postfix/postdrop[2894]: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory
Postfix and Sendmail are both MTAs (Mail Transfer Agent) and provide almost the same functionality. Sendmail is known to be a lot more complicated to configure then Postfix. So to answer your question, either of them will do the job if configured correctly, both together are not necessary and not advised. If Postfix is working correctly then you don't need Sendmail.
Postfix and Sendmail are both MTAs (Mail Transfer Agent) and provide almost the same functionality. Sendmail is known to be a lot more complicated to configure then Postfix. So to answer your question, either of them will do the job if configured correctly, both together are not necessary and not advised. If Postfix is working correctly then you don't need Sendmail.
Kind regards,
Eric
is the service called sendmail, can;t seem to find it.
I guess I could just yum remove sendmail
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