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