Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > 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 ... > I put in BuildRequires: sendmail-devel and it looks like everything is working now on my tests. The new version will be in RC 2, which should be out today or tomorrow. I put in sendmail-devel because all the documentation says that sendmail is the default, and if smtpdaemon or something else pulls in something like postfix, I wasn't positive that it would work. Checking the dependancies, it doesn't require the actual sendmail package, only /usr/sbin/sendmail Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group __________________________________________________