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Mail-agents in KDE and openSUSE12.2 - General info und function: can anybody get my ideas clearer? Jan 18th 2013, 10:34 I am using 12.2 64bit and KDE (default). My preferred mail program is Kontact/Kmail. Now, using apparmor and issuing the aa-unconfined I recall (my system is currently broken so I cannot access the logfiles etc easily): I saw sendmail listening there is postfix running (found a whole lot of records in /var/log/warn about postfix (which where "permitted" so apparently this is O.K.). I would have understood that sendmail is not a good choice to be used and postfix is safer. Maybe that info is outdated... So a few questions, if someone by chance is knowledgeable s(he) can enlighten me about these: is currently sendmail still installed by default in openSUSE and if yes, why and what is it used for if not, which program could have triggered its install? as postfix is installed for sure, is it currently the default mail agent? how does the structure work anyway? This is a very general question maybe, you may also point me to a document either in the documentation or web. What I actually do not understand is the relationship between the KDE mail program (Kmail) and the underlying postfix (sendmail?) program. I am just trying to understand that point. Of course I will read the "f-manual" but lets be conscious about the sad situation: I am currently still on.... which one has to be read? Thank you.

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