Re: How does gnus talk to sendmail

[reader@newsguy.com]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Sun, Dec 03 2006, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
>
>> Setup:
>>    Gentoo linux 2.6.18 
>>    sendmail 8.13.8
>>    several week old cvs gnus
>>
>> I've just let gnus find sendmail for years for sending mail but
>> suddenly am getting an error:
>>
>>   `no such program as /usr/lib/sendmail'
> [...]
>> I fixed the problem temporarily by symlinking 
>>  /usr/lib/sendmail -> /usr/sbin/sendmail
>>
>> But I wondered why gnus thinks sendmail is at /usr/lib/sendmail and
>> where it is told that information. 
>
> All the code in `message.el' (Gnus) and `sendmail.el' (Emacs) prefers
> /usr/sbin/sendmail over /usr/lib/sendmail, AFAICS.  Maybe a you have
> set `sendmail-program' in your (site) init files?

No mention of sendmail in any init files 
(.gnus .emacs ../site-start.el)

So unless the gentoo os has its own emacs init files someplace it
isn't coming from init.   

I build emacs myself (don't use the gentoo OS installer) so should not
have any problems from OS specific init files.   And don't see any
installed. 

What is puzzling is that it suddenly doesn't know where sendmail is.
Like others who have posted on this... I've had no problem for years
with emacs/gnus finding sendmail.


GNU Emacs 22.0.90.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of 2006-11-15 on
reader:  

Should be loading ../lisp/mail/sendmail.elc which in turn
should be finding sendmail at /usr/sbin/sendmail.


  (defcustom sendmail-program
  (cond
    ((file-exists-p "/usr/sbin/sendmail") "/usr/sbin/sendmail")
    ((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/sendmail") "/usr/lib/sendmail")
    ((file-exists-p "/usr/ucblib/sendmail") "/usr/ucblib/sendmail")
    (t "fakemail"))        ;In ../etc, to interface to /bin/mail.
  "Program used to send messages."
  :group 'mail
  :type 'file)

ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail:
-r-xr-s--x 1 root smmsp 647832 Aug 12 10:50 /usr/sbin/sendmail