[ITP] Sendmail 8.14.9

Christian Franke Christian.Franke@t-online.de
Tue Feb 17 22:51:00 GMT 2015


D. Boland wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
>
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>> Only two smaller problems:
>>
>> - The mailq and newaliases symlinks in /usr/bin must not be part
>>    of the package, otherwise they potentially overwrite an existing
>>    configuration.  They are created by sendmail-config anyway, if
>>    the user chooses to run the script.
>>
>> - Probably less important, but the other MTAs are installed into
>>    /usr/sbin, not into /usr/libexec.  Fedora installs the sendmail
>>    binary as /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail, analog to postfix, which
>>    is installed on Cygwin and Linux as /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix.
>>    But that's not that important, as long as there's no collision.
>>
>> Other than that, I think the package is GTG.
>>
> Thanks for the sharp eye. I'll remove the links.
>

Another minor issue in the last line /etc/postinstall/sendmail.sh:

chown SYSTEM:Administrators $UBINDIR/sendmail-config

This does not work with all versions of Windows because the 
"Administrators" (S-1-5-32-544) group name may be localized.

Christian



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