On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Troy Dawson wrote:

> February 12, 2009
> The secpmd beta release for Scientific Linux 5.3 i386 has been released
> for both i386 and x86_64.

> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> CHANGES by Scientific Linux
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> **ALPINE
> **  Updated to the latest version
> **  Our version of alpine 2.00 has the following changes compared to
> **  our 1.0 version
> **  An /etc/alpine/pine.conf.sample file is installed, no longer
> **    overwriting an existing pine.conf  Therefore an existing pine.conf
> **    in /etc/alpine will be left untouched even after the upgrade. For
> **    an installation from scratch it is advantageous to copy the sample
> **    conf file to pine.conf, but alpine works also without it.
> **    Users are now able to use a .alpine.passfile
>  i386:
> **	alpine-2.00-1.el5.i386.rpm
>  x86_64:
> **	alpine-2.00-1.el5.x86_64.rpm

Just a heads-up for now (more when I've got to the bottom of it)
but for installations where alpine uses sendmail to send the mail
alpine-2.00-1 is not a dropin replacement for v1.10.

I'm used to using 
smtp-server=
to tell alpine to use sendmail, but this doesn't work with the 
alpine-2.00-1.el5.x86_64 package. I think I'll have to use
sendmail-path=/usr/sbin/sendmail ...

This part of the alpine documentation hasn't changed since v1.10.
Is it a change in the package ?

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