Bug 16017

Summary:	Nail fails to provide an /etc/alternatives entry for sendmail-command
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Hoyt Duff <hoyt>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal	CC:	hoytduff, marja11
Version:	7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://maximumhoyt.blogspot.com/2010/06/managing-etcalternatives.html
Whiteboard:	MGA5TOO
Source RPM:	nail-12.4-12.mga5	CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:	21295
Bug Blocks:

Description Hoyt Duff 2015-05-22 16:56:29 CEST

Description of problem:
Nail fails to provide an /etc/alternatives entry for sendmail-command

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Every verion to current version

How reproducible:
Install nail-12.4-12.mga5 (I believe as part of base packages)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. update-alternatives --config sendmail-command 
2. command produces no response; no entry for /bin/mail
3. See above link for a workaround.


For desktop systems and minimal servers that need mail notification, /bin/mail will suffice nicely, but apps hardcoded to use the sendmail command will not detect it or use it as long as it does not appear in /etc/alternatives.



Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Samuel Verschelde 2015-06-06 16:26:56 CEST

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA5TOO

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2016-10-23 21:21:39 CEST

@ Hoyt

Sorry for the very late reply. BugSquad is short on active members.

Is this bug still valid?

Assigning to all packagers collectively, since there is no registered maintainer for this package.

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 2 Hoyt Duff 2016-10-23 23:52:40 CEST

Last I checked, one must manually create the link in /etc/alternatives.

Marja Van Waes 2016-10-24 00:04:04 CEST

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

Comment 3 Hoyt Duff 2017-06-07 13:40:23 CEST

Bug still valid for Mageia6.

Comment 4 Hoyt Duff 2017-06-30 01:26:35 CEST

To assist anyone searching for this issue, I'll leave this link for a HOWTO to manually fix the /etc/alternatives issue for /bin/mail, since it has been removed from above.
http://maximumhoyt.blogspot.com/2010/06/managing-etcalternatives.html

And this link to configure /etc/nail.rc to enable Gmail for sending system reports.
http://maximumhoyt.blogspot.com/2008/11/nail-mailx-and-gmail.html

CC: (none) => hoytduff

Comment 5 Hoyt Duff 2017-07-19 18:21:59 CEST

As of the Mageia6 release, 

1. /etc/alternatives will not allow /bin/mail as a valid alternative for sendmail-command 
2. It appears as if postfix is installed by default.

Not only is this bug report still valid, the situation has gotten worse.

Comment 6 Hoyt Duff 2019-07-05 23:53:38 CEST

Bug still valid for Mageia7.

Hoyt Duff 2019-07-05 23:58:48 CEST

Hardware: i586 => x86_64
Version: Cauldron => 7

Marja Van Waes 2020-04-29 15:33:10 CEST

Depends on: (none) => 21295

Comment 7 Hoyt Duff 2020-04-29 17:04:49 CEST

es, this is still valid. Here is the current error message on Mageia7:

# update-alternatives --install /etc/alternatives/sendmail-command sendmail-command /bin/mail 1 
the primary link for sendmail-command must be /usr/sbin/sendmail

I suppose that I could install sendmail and then ignore it, but I have no need to install sendmail just to enforce someone's arbitrary decision to make it mandatory.

Comment 8 Aurelien Oudelet 2021-07-06 13:15:28 CEST

Mageia 7 is EOL since July 1st 2021.
There will not have any further bugfix for this release.

You are encouraged to upgrade to Mageia 8 as soon as possible.

@reporter, if this bug still apply with Mageia 8, please let us know it.

@packager, if you work on the Mageia 7 version of your package, please check the Mageia 8 package if issue is also present. In this case, please fix the Mageia 8 version instead.

This bug report will be closed OLD if there is no further notice within 1st September 2021.

Comment 9 Marja Van Waes 2021-09-07 14:10:41 CEST

Hi bug reporter and hi assignee and others involved,

Please reopen this bug report if it is still valid for Mageia 8 or 9(cauldron), and change "Version:" in the upper left of this report accordingly.

This report is being closed as OLD because it was filed against Mageia 7, for which  support ended on June 30th 2021.

Thanks,
Marja

Resolution: (none) => OLD
Status: NEW => RESOLVED