mailwrapper (PSARC/2008/759)

[John Beck]

Ceri> /usr/sbin/sendmail is a symlink to the mailwrapper binary, and
Ceri> the "real" sendmail is installed somewhere else ...

Plocher> JBeck:  I *am* confused about mailwrapper being a symlink to
Plocher> sendmail, rather than being something that would work even if
Plocher> sendmail was not installed at all, which seems to be the whole
Plocher> point of having a mailwrapper-like abstraction in the first
Plocher> place.  Or am I missing something obvious here?

Read what Ceri wrote again: mailwrapper is not a sym-link, but an actual
binary file; whereas sendmail becomes a link to mailwrapper.  :-)

I'll let Ceri reply to Danek's question.

-- John

http://blogs.sun.com/jbeck