From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64079 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: reader@newsguy.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How does gnus talk to sendmail Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:40:54 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87lklmtkop.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87wt58yb9z.fsf@newsguy.com> <8764crsct0.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165333346 13896 80.91.229.10 (5 Dec 2006 15:42:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:42:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M12602@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Dec 05 16:42:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GrcR4-0001jw-FJ for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:42:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GrcQ5-0005kp-1Q; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:41:21 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GrcQ1-0005kO-UZ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:41:17 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GrcPw-0001pi-CE for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:41:17 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1GrcPu-0007XQ-00 for ; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:41:10 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GrcPo-0006zh-V2 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:41:04 +0100 Original-Received: from c-67-163-25-192.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([67.163.25.192]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:41:04 +0100 Original-Received: from reader by c-67-163-25-192.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:41:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-163-25-192.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sUimQv571JyXcII6OkKeRHXijX0= X-Spam-Score: -1.6 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64079 Archived-At: Dave Goldberg writes: > The reason is that for all those years, even with sendmail's preferred > place having moved to /usr/sbin (thanks to gdt for reminding me that > the move is older than I remembered last night) /usr/lib/sendmail has > typically been kept as a symbolic link. That's how it is on all the > systems I see at work (various flavors of RedHat/Fedora, Solaris and > IRIX). Your upgraded system does not. I've seen some discussion on > the removal of the link, but can't recall where off hand. Thanks > again to gdt for reminding me that there's already code to find > sendmail in paths.el, but that is, to my knowledge, only run at build > time. So you can either set sendmail-program in your .emacs or > recompile. so the code posted in sendmail.el does not get run? Or does not ferret out the sendmail binary?