Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:35:19 -0700 From: David Southwell <admin@vizion2000.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qpopper compile failure Message-ID: <201203140535.19271.admin@vizion2000.net> In-Reply-To: <4F5F5869.3010607@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <201203130601.52466.admin@vizion2000.net> <4F5F5869.3010607@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Tuesday 13 March 2012 07:23:37 Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 13/03/2012 13:01, David Southwell wrote: > > qpopper has been working fine (amd64 running postfix) but on portupgrade > > I am Getting the following error: > > > > set MISSING_OBJS to base64.o > > set MISSING_SRCS to base64.c > > Set AR_FLAG = -r ; RANLIB_CMD = > > checking for sendmail program... ERROR: The sendmail program cannot be > > located ===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly. > > > > > > sendmail is > > [root@dns1 /usr/ports/mail/qpopper]# whereis sendmail > > sendmail: /usr/local/sbin/sendmail /usr/local/man/man1/sendmail.1.gz > > /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail > > > > qpopper config log includes the following lines: > > > > > > > > PATH: /usr/local/kde4/bin > > PATH: /sbin > > PATH: /bin > > PATH: /usr/sbin > > PATH: /usr/bin > > PATH: /usr/games > > PATH: /usr/local/sbin > > PATH: /usr/local/share/lprof > > PATH: /usr/local/bin > > PATH: /home/admin/bin > > > > Does anyone have any idea why this error might occur? > > Yes. All unix apps that send e-mail expect to do it by piping the mail > into /usr/sbin/sendmail. Despite the name, on FreeBSD that is not > actually sendmail-brand sendmail, but mailwrapper(8) -- a handy program > that redirects that piped input into the MTA of your choice. > > (sendmail q.v. is actually in /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail) > > Restore /usr/sbin/sendmail and verify that the contents of > /etc/mail/mailer.conf are sane, and qpopper should spring into life again. > > Cheers, > > Matthew Does that not produce problems with postfix? How do we retain mailwrapper functionality? spf was working fine until upgrading. What has changed? Atm I have spf turned off until I get this sorted. David
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