On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:

>> 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 ?
>
> Besides in the alpine.conf, where was this documented?

/usr/share/doc/alpine-2.00/tech-notes.txt
especially the "SMTP and Sendmail" section.

I haven't checked yet, but I'm inclined to believe Jon Peatfield's
suggestion that the difference is the previous version was built on a 
machine with sendmail and this one was built on a (virtual) machine
without sendmail installed.

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