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. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [log in to unmask] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna