Filing this as a gentoo bug since it probably has to do with ssmtp's sendmail-compatible service, not necessarily upstream MIME-Lite. A perl-CGI application LedgerSMB which has the line of source code: LedgerSMB/Mailer.pm(39) use MIME::Lite; Works with MIME-Lite-3.0, but gives the following error with MIME-Lite-3.021: [error] [client 127.0.0.1] can't find an executable sendmail at LedgerSMB/Mailer.pm line 39 [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Compilation failed in require at LedgerSMB/Mailer.pm line 39. Downgrading to MIME-Lite-3.01 restores proper operation. MIME-Lite has no /etc/ configuration, so I presume that it is simply not finding or accepting as compatible ssmtp's installed sendmail. # which sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail equery belongs sendmail [ Searching for file(s) sendmail in *... ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.62-r3 (/usr/bin/sendmail -> /usr/sbin/ssmtp) mail-mta/ssmtp-2.62-r3 (/usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/sbin/ssmtp) mail-mta/ssmtp-2.62-r3 (/usr/lib/sendmail -> /usr/sbin/ssmtp) Reproducible: Always perl v5.8.8 Packages that I think may be involved (I have ssmtp and not mailwrapper installed on this development laptop) # emerge perl MIME-Lite ssmtp mailwrapper -pv [ebuild R ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r5 USE="berkdb gdbm -build -debug -doc -ithreads -perlsuid" 0 kB [ebuild R ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.62-r3 USE="ipv6 md5sum ssl -maxsysuid" 0 kB [ebuild U ] dev-perl/MIME-Lite-3.021 [3.01] 0 kB [ebuild N ] net-mail/mailwrapper-0.2.1 7 kB [blocks B ] net-mail/mailwrapper ("net-mail/mailwrapper" is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.62-r3) Total: 4 packages (1 upgrade, 1 new, 2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 7 kB Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)
Okay, I've added a patch from <http://bugs.debian.org/465342>. Please test again.
The patch 3.021-no_sendmail.patch appears to work.
