On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Hmmm ... you are correct and this is troubling to me.
>
> On a plain SL 5.2 machine, freshly installed, using our alpine 1.10.  I fired 
> up pine, as a regular user, and was able to send an email with no extra 
> configuration.
>
> On a plain SL 5.3 machine (for i386 and x86_64), freshly installed, using out 
> alpine 2.00.  I fired up pine as a regular user.  In both cases I got "Error 
> sending:  No default posting command"
>
> I believe the comment that the one could have been built in an enviroment 
> without sendmail can be correct.  For alpine 2.00 we built it in a moch 
> (chroot) enviroment.  And although I don't ususally, I might have built 
> alpine 1.10 on a regular system that had sendmail installed.
>
> I'm going to try out that theory, and hopefully have a resolution in a few 
> hours.

Thanks.

Jon Peatfield suggested to me that we could add
BuildRequires: smtpdaemon
(or possibly
BuildRequires: /usr/sbin/sendmail
) to pull sendmail in at build time ...

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