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Re: MTA packaging (exim, postfix, sendmail, ssmtp)
- From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 11:40:38 -0500
- Subject: Re: MTA packaging (exim, postfix, sendmail, ssmtp)
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On 2014-10-08 11:32, Christian Franke wrote:
The cron package is also affected. Its postinstall script sets a symlink
/usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/bin/cronlog if sendmail does not exist. This
would break alternatives setting in MTA configure script because
alternatives would never replace the existing symlink.
Good catch.
Possible workaround: Add rm -f /usr/sbin/sendmail ... to MTA configure
scripts.
Yes, before running alternatives.
Yaakov
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- MTA packaging (exim, postfix, sendmail, ssmtp)
- Re: MTA packaging (exim, postfix, sendmail, ssmtp)
- Re: MTA packaging (exim, postfix, sendmail, ssmtp)
- Re: MTA packaging (exim, postfix, sendmail, ssmtp)