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Bug#: 62670
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Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
Assigned To: Net-Mail Packages <net-mail@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: Andrej Kacian (RETIRED) <ticho@gentoo.org>
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Description:   Opened: 2004-09-02 17:41 0000
If mailwrapper is to be of any use, all MTAs that install /usr/sbin/sendmail
should install /usr/sbin/sendmail.packagename instead. I've written an example
ebuild (http://dev.gentoo.org/~ticho/esmtp-0.5.0.ebuild) with message in
pkg_postinst() which can be replicated to every MTA that needs to support
mailwrapper.

Currently, postfix and esmtp (which I am about to add in portage) come into my
mind. Does anyone know of other? I'm sure there are more, including sendmail
itself.

------- Comment #1 From Andrej Kacian (RETIRED) 2004-09-02 17:53:00 0000 -------
Oh yes, and these MTAs need to RDEPEND on mailwrapper. I suggest
>=mailwrapper-0.2, since location of mailer.conf has changed since 0.1, which
IMHO should be removed from portage, as 0.2 is marked stable on all archs.

------- Comment #2 From Tuan Van (RETIRED) 2004-09-02 20:02:03 0000 -------
from postfix stable ebuild.
<snip>
        if use mailwrapper
        then
                mv "${D}/usr/sbin/sendmail" "${D}/usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix"
</snip>
so postfix should be ok.

------- Comment #3 From Andrej Kacian (RETIRED) 2004-09-02 23:37:17 0000 -------
My apologies, I overlooked that. But, how will a new user know about this
feature? I for one didn't know anything about mailwrapper up until now.

Shouldn't a warning be issued in case mailwrapper flag is not set AND there is
already a MTA installed? MTAs blocking each other (!virtual/mta in DEPEND) is
not a good idea for small MTAs, since for example esmtp can nicely be used
along with Postfix (my case).

------- Comment #4 From Andrej Kacian (RETIRED) 2004-09-02 23:44:19 0000 -------
Nevermind, I found the !mailwrapper? ( virtual/mta ) in postfix. I shouldn't be
staring at all those tiny letters so early in the morning. Closing this, sorry
for bothering. :)

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