kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) (04/07/89)
I just installed the beta version of Elm 2.2 here, and
quickly ran into a minor glitch. I don't have sendmail
running here on ditka, but I do have the sendmail sources
in a directory (called sendmail, what else) in my home
directory.
Configure didn't find sendmail in any of the usual places
and therefore properly configured Elm to use smail/rmail
instead.
I was rather surprised to find that when I tried to send
mail using Elm from within my home directory, Elm barfed
with a complaint about not being able to execute sendmail.
Turns out Configure didn't remove references to sendmail
in the code or change a compile-time option. Instead, it
left the "sendmail" definition defined to be "sendmail",
sans any path. Elm kept hopefully looking for a sendmail
executable in my current directory, and the directory
(with usual permissions, including "execute") matched its
wildest dreams.
The check for an executable sendmail is done in mailmsg1.c;
I assume some kind of conditional compilation should go
around this sucker though I'll leave that up to somebody
more knowledgeable of the Elm code and configuration.
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