Bug 50827

Summary:	mailwrapper-0.1 / sendmail-8.12.11-r2 install bad /etc/mailer.conf
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Net-Mail Packages <net-mail+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	distler, lcars
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2004-05-12 01:37:21 UTC

After installation of net-mail/mailwrapper-0.1 and net-mail/sendmail-8.12.11-r2,
the configuration in /etc/mailer.conf will point to postfix and not to sendmail.

Possible solution:
/etc/mailer.conf should _not_ be installed by mailwrapper, but by the ebuild of
the MTA (sendmail, postfix, etc.).


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install mailwrapper and sendmail
2. 
3.

Actual Results:  
/etc/mailer.conf is configured for /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
(which is not installed).


Expected Results:  
Should be configured for /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail.

Comment 1 Andrej Kacian (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-22 16:01:01 UTC

Another solution would be to inform user (ewarn or einfo) that he needs to configure mailer.conf appropriately.

If we're going to let every MTA install its /etc/mail/mailer.conf, it should only contain only minimum of lines and it should be installed as fe. /etc/mail/mailer.conf.sendmail. mailer.conf file could then be a mere symlink to one of these files, and we could have some sort of switcher script, just like opengl-update for GL libs.

My 2 cents here :)

Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2004-09-23 06:04:39 UTC

I agree. Since meanwhile a "mailwrapper" useflag has been introduced (see bug 48652), users only get mailwrapper if they explicitly ask for it. An information message might therefore be sufficient.

Comment 3 Andrea Barisani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-17 10:00:57 UTC

latest sendmail ebuilds do install /etc/mail/mailer.conf appropriately so I'm
closing this bug.