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
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