From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 14 13:40:50 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A38411065670 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:40:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin@vizion2000.net) Received: from dns1.vizion2000.net (dns1.vizion2000.net [62.49.197.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCB8C8FC1A for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:40:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dns1.vizion2000.net (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 256B6119C62; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:35:21 -0700 (PDT) From: David Southwell Organization: Vizion Communications To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:35:19 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/8.2-RELEASE; KDE/4.7.4; amd64; ; ) References: <201203130601.52466.admin@vizion2000.net> <4F5F5869.3010607@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4F5F5869.3010607@infracaninophile.co.uk> X-KMail-Markup: true MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201203140535.19271.admin@vizion2000.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: qpopper compile failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: david@vizion2000.net List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:40:50 -0000 On Tuesday 13 March 2012 07:23:37 Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 13/03/2012 13:01, David Southwell wrote: > > qpopper has been working fine (amd64 running postfix) but on portupgrade > > I am Getting the following error: > > > > set MISSING_OBJS to base64.o > > set MISSING_SRCS to base64.c > > Set AR_FLAG = -r ; RANLIB_CMD = > > checking for sendmail program... ERROR: The sendmail program cannot be > > located ===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly. > > > > > > sendmail is > > [root@dns1 /usr/ports/mail/qpopper]# whereis sendmail > > sendmail: /usr/local/sbin/sendmail /usr/local/man/man1/sendmail.1.gz > > /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail > > > > qpopper config log includes the following lines: > > > > > > > > PATH: /usr/local/kde4/bin > > PATH: /sbin > > PATH: /bin > > PATH: /usr/sbin > > PATH: /usr/bin > > PATH: /usr/games > > PATH: /usr/local/sbin > > PATH: /usr/local/share/lprof > > PATH: /usr/local/bin > > PATH: /home/admin/bin > > > > Does anyone have any idea why this error might occur? > > Yes. All unix apps that send e-mail expect to do it by piping the mail > into /usr/sbin/sendmail. Despite the name, on FreeBSD that is not > actually sendmail-brand sendmail, but mailwrapper(8) -- a handy program > that redirects that piped input into the MTA of your choice. > > (sendmail q.v. is actually in /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail) > > Restore /usr/sbin/sendmail and verify that the contents of > /etc/mail/mailer.conf are sane, and qpopper should spring into life again. > > Cheers, > > Matthew Does that not produce problems with postfix? How do we retain mailwrapper functionality? spf was working fine until upgrading. What has changed? Atm I have spf turned off until I get this sorted. David