Missing sendmail because i removed it.

Alain De Vos

Alain De Vos

Some programs , like fcron, want to use sendmail to send mails.
They produce errors like , "Couldn\'t exec \'/usr/sbin/sendmail\': No such file or directory"
But I removed sendmail and installed opensmtpd instead.
How to instruct to "all programs" use smtpd to send mails instead of sendmail?
 
It depends. mailwrapper wouldn't exist on a base system explicitly compiled without sendmail.

In any case, using an SMTP connection instead of a sendmail binary is something that each piece of software must be configured to do separately. Some can do it, some can't.
 
mtu said:
mailwrapper wouldn't exist on a base system explicitly compiled without sendmail.
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WITHOUT_SENDMAIL doesn't include WITHOUT_MAILWRAPPER. WITHOUT_MAIL does. So it depends.

Code: 
     WITHOUT_MAIL
             Set to not build any mail support (MUA or MTA).  When set, it
             enforces these options:

             WITHOUT_DMAGENT
             WITHOUT_MAILWRAPPER
             WITHOUT_SENDMAIL

     WITHOUT_MAILWRAPPER
             Set to not build the mailwrapper(8) MTA selector.
 
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I had compiled src.conf,
Code: 
WITHOUT_MAIL=yes
WITHOUT_MAILWRAPPER=yes
WITHOUT_SENDMAIL=yes
I now changed now mailer.conf to,
Code: 
sendmail        /usr/local/sbin/smtpctl
send-mail       /usr/local/sbin/smtpctl
mailq           /usr/local/sbin/smtpctl
makemap         /usr/local/libexec/opensmtpd/makemap
newaliases      /usr/local/libexec/opensmtpd/makemap
#hoststat
#purgestat
And in fcron.conf
Code: 
sendmail    =    /usr/local/sbin/smtpctl

As mailwrapper seems an interesting program next time i use in src.conf,
Code: 
WITH_MAILWRAPPER
WITHOUT_DMAGENT
WITHOUT_SENDMAIL
 
Remove WITHOUT_MAIL too, that one includes WITHOUT_MAILWRAPPER.
 
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