I: 1 - Emerged Postfix 2 - Configured it 3 - Tried using "/usr/sbin/sendmail" to send a local mail to another user. It works. 4 - Emerged mailutils 5 - Tried a "mail root" 6 - Wrote something 7 - CTRL+D it Error returned: sh: line 1: sendmail:/usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory cat /var/log/mail/current doesn't say a thing. Sendmail is there, and I believe it has correct permissions. (755) Expected results: mail simply works.
Ok, I found a simple workaround. The ebuild didn't say anything about the lack of /etc/mail.rc . Still, the error returned by mail was ambiguous, so it wasn't clear the problem. This will fix the problem in an accettable way (if you like it) : ----------------------------- # Copyright 1999-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc. # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-mail/mailutils/mailutils-0.3.1.ebuild,v 1.2 2003/09/05 09:11:17 msterret Exp $ DESCRIPTION="A useful collection of mail servers, clients, and filters." HOMEPAGE="http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/mailutils.html" SRC_URI="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailutils/${P}.tar.bz2" LICENSE="GPL-2 LGPL-2.1" SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="~x86 ~ppc" IUSE="nls pam mysql gdbm" DEPEND="!net-mail/mailx !net-mail/nmh dev-util/guile gdbm? ( sys-libs/gdbm ) mysql? ( dev-db/mysql ) nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )" S=${WORKDIR}/${P} src_compile() { use nls || myconf="${myconf} --disable-nls" use pam || myconf="${myconf} --disable-pam" use mysql && myconf="${myconf} --enable-mysql" use gdbm && myconf="${myconf} --with-gdbm" ./configure \ --host=${CHOST} \ --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var \ --infodir=/usr/share/info \ --sharedstatedir=/var \ --mandir=/usr/share/man \ --disable-sendmail \ ${myconf} || die "./configure failed" emake || die } src_install() { make DESTDIR=${D} install || die } pkg_postinst() { echo "" ewarn "Please remember to create your own configuration file for mail." ewarn "For example, for a basic configuration, run:" ewarn "" ewarn "echo \"set sendmail=\\\"/usr/sbin/sendmail\\\" ask askcc append dot save crt\" > /etc/mail.rc\n\n" }
mailutils-0.5 will install /etc/mail.rc. Thanks.
