[aur-general] New package: disklow

Holger Jahn lists at loomsday.co.nz
Tue Sep 3 09:13:03 UTC 2019


>> One of the opt-depend packages my disklow is using, "msmtp-mta", is
>> containing a single symlink (/usr/bin/sendmail => msmtp). Perhaps, I should
>> have a look at its PKGBUILD (it's most likely simply calling "ln -s" in its
>> install() section).
> 
> But what would the symbolic link be needed for?

/usr/{bin,sbin}/sendmail provides the mail transport binary for the 
various "mail" implementations. Sendmail, Msmtp, Postfix, etc, being 
MTAs provide the system with this very basic means to send email.


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