Carsten Neumann on Sat, 7 Sep 2002 06:58:27 +0200 (CEST)(envelope-from owner-apsfilter-help@apsfilter.org)


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Re: building apsfilter without sendmail


On Sat, 07 Sep 2002, David Syphers wrote:
> I'm running FreeBSD 4.6.2, and trying to build apsfilter 7.2.2 from the ports. 
> It fails with
> 
> looking for sendmail in /usr/sbin...
> looking for sendmail in /usr/lib...
> looking for sendmail in /sbin...
> looking for sendmail in /bin...
> looking for sendmail in /usr/sbin...
> looking for sendmail in /usr/bin...
> looking for sendmail in /usr/games...
> looking for sendmail in /usr/local/sbin...
> looking for sendmail in /usr/local/bin...
> looking for sendmail in /usr/X11R6/bin...
> looking for sendmail in /root/bin...
> configure: error: no sendmail found; use --with-sendmail
> 
> Why on earth is apsfilter looking for sendmail? Does sendmail have _anything_ 
> to do with printing? I'm building this on a workstation that gets all its 
> mail via POP, and do not use or build sendmail.

Sendmail is needed for duplex notifying.

> 
> The "use --with-sendmail" suggestion is mystifying as well. I have tried 'make 
> --with-sendmail=no' and  'make --with-sendmail=false', both of which result 
> in the same error.

You just set the path to sendmail with that option.

> 
> -David
> 
> -- 
> When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
> -Goethe
> 
> Astronomy and Astrophysics Center
> The University of Chicago

Install sendmail before and remove it after installing apsfilter.

Or put somewhere a fake `sendmail'.
I don't know if that works. Just an idea.

	Carsten