From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
Cc: 28470@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28470: caff in the signing-party package can't find sendmail on GuixSD
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2017 23:37:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87infom28i.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170915193348.5491e73f@cbaines.net>
Hi Christopher,
> When using caff from the signing-tools pacakge, it looks for sendmail
> in the wrong places [1]. It would be useful to find a way to make it
> work when installed.
>
> I have found a workaround, which is to specify PERL_MAILERS as
> sendmail:$(type -p sendmail), e.g.:
>
> PERL_MAILERS=sendmail:$(type -p sendmail) caff ...
>
> 1: /usr/lib/sendmail;/usr/sbin/sendmail;/usr/ucblib/sendmail
What is the expected behaviour here? Does it *only* work with sendmail?
Or would any mailer (like msmtp) work? Should the user’s default mailer
be used or should we embed a reference to a specific mailer?
--
Ricardo, an msmtp user
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2017-09-15 18:33 bug#28470: caff in the signing-party package can't find sendmail on GuixSD Christopher Baines
2017-10-09 21:37 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2017-10-10 7:31 ` Christopher Baines
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