481600 – sys-process/fcron - add USE=-sendmail

Bug 481600 - sys-process/fcron - add USE=-sendmail

Summary: sys-process/fcron - add USE=-sendmail

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2013-08-19 08:33 UTC by J.Borme
Modified:	2013-09-30 16:34 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description J.Borme 2013-08-19 08:33:27 UTC

fcron can send e-mails to the user when something happens, if this has been activated at configure time. Current fcron ebuilds enable this feature without a choice from the user. Just like sudo, this behaviour shoud be controlled by the USE flag "sendmail."

One can edit fcron.conf to give an invalid pointer to sendmail so that fcron won't succeed in sending e-mails, but it's just cleaner if one can do it through USE flags, given that there is at least another ebuild that supports it.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Michael Orlitzky gentoo-dev

2013-09-12 02:23:18 UTC

There are some relevant comments on bug #484630.

Comment 2 Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) gentoo-dev

2013-09-30 16:34:34 UTC

+  30 Sep 2013; Rick Farina <zerochaos@gentoo.org> fcron-3.1.2-r2.ebuild,
+  metadata.xml:
+  add optional mta support, fixes build failure bug 484630 and related bug
+  481600

Added USE=mta (defaults to on)