From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64063 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How does gnus talk to sendmail Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:09:49 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Message-ID: References: <87wt58yb9z.fsf@newsguy.com> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165223639 31931 80.91.229.10 (4 Dec 2006 09:13:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 09:13:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M12586@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Dec 04 10:13:57 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 1Gr9tc-0008E9-T7 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:13:57 +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 1Gr9re-0004Za-JU; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:11:54 -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 1Gr9rc-0004ZE-FJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:11:52 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gr9rW-00056j-Bj for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:11:52 -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 1Gr9rU-0005G2-00 for ; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:11:44 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Gr9rN-0006dJ-TG for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:11:39 +0100 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.10.123]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:11:37 +0100 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:11:37 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de X-Face: :6KQZ[nyoS_edmB.%gw-=)BYth^|2+Y+^cu%I$FSx!&>-'om>3H7A|M&n(V7fIo3P.;yo.b yq4$p;ZaBtkv)\}biaiBQe"mD}iib1AA@99-fZ7i*bLhNRVC&0Wkxg9)SH?oWc@{ Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ympInh9nWQfUS89YMyY5LDQYvhk= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64063 Archived-At: 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? Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/