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I'm just wondering what happens if I have sendmail installed, and subsequently installed postfix, what will php use when I use the mail command?

Will having 2 MTAs installed cause any other problems? I'm very new at this, so thanks for your help.

inorganik
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This can be configured via php.ini but by default it will use sendmail Most MTAs replace the sendmail binary with their own copy, so whatever package is providing the sendmail binary is the one that php is using, providing you made no config changes.

As a side not do not install multiple MTAs. There's almost no away they will all work.

coteyr
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You can't have multiple MTAs installed, only one can provide /usr/sbin/sendmail at a time. You can set the path to the MTA in the php.ini, by the sendmail_path option, in case it's installed somewhere else, or you want to use it with different parameters than the default. If you install postfix, sendmail will be removed and postfix will provide /usr/sbin/sendmail.

grimpitch
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