MTA packaging (exim, postfix, sendmail, ssmtp)

[Christian Franke]

Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> Corinna, Christian, Daniel, Pierre,
>
> Because MTAs must be user-configured, and we certainly don't want to 
> lose the selection during package upgrades, the alternatives cannot be 
> handled in package postinst/prerm.  I think the only way to make this 
> work is for each MTA config script to handle these instead by 
> including the following snippets in the respective MTA config scripts.
>
> Please review this carefully in case I missed anything.
>
> ...
>
> postfix:
> ========
>
> /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/sbin/sendmail mta 
> /usr/sbin/postfix.exe 0 \
>     --slave /usr/lib/sendmail mta-sendmail /usr/sbin/postfix.exe \
>     --slave /usr/bin/mailq mta-mailq /usr/sbin/postfix.exe \
>     --slave /usr/bin/newaliases mta-newaliases /usr/sbin/postfix.exe
>
> /usr/sbin/alternatives --set mta /usr/sbin/postfix.exe
>

"postfix" is the control program, there is a separate "sendmail" command 
for sendmail emulation. Attached is the alternatives part of the 
/etc/postinstall/postfix.sh from the current draft postfix package. It 
also provides links for the related man pages.

The Fedora postfix package also provides alternatives for 
man5/aliases.5.gz and man8/smtpd.8.gz. Is this needed on Cygwin?

Thanks,
Christian

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/usr/sbin/alternatives \
    --install /usr/sbin/sendmail mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix.exe 0 \
    --slave /usr/lib/sendmail mta-sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix.exe \
    --slave /usr/bin/mailq mta-mailq /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix.exe \
    --slave /usr/bin/newaliases mta-newaliases /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix.exe \
    --slave /usr/share/man/man1/sendmail.1.gz mta-sendmail-man /usr/share/man/man1/sendmail.postfix.1.gz \
    --slave /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.1.gz mta-mailq-man /usr/share/man/man1/sendmail.postfix.1.gz \
    --slave /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.1.gz mta-newaliases-man /usr/share/man/man1/sendmail.postfix.1.gz

/usr/sbin/alternatives --set mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix.exe