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Artix Linux => Installation / Migration / Configuration => Topic started by: mardiyah on 20 December 2021, 12:24:17

Title: Help installing sendmail as requirement
Post by: mardiyah on 20 December 2021, 12:24:17
How to install / have
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sendmail
as it is required when trying to report Perl bug

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It appears that there is no program which looks like "sendmail"
on your system.

Please help out !
Title: Re: Help installing sendmail as requirement
Post by: Chris Cromer on 20 December 2021, 16:29:50
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/sendmail
Title: Re: Help installing sendmail as requirement
Post by: gripped on 20 December 2021, 17:27:49
Quote from: mardiyah – on
How to install / have
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sendmail
as it is required when trying to report Perl bug
Any more context ?

I'm assuming you are using perlbug ?
From the perlbug man page:
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If you are unable to send your report using perlbug (most likely because your system doesn't have a way to
       send mail that perlbug recognizes), you may be able to use this tool to compose your report and save it to a
       file which you can then send to [email protected] using your regular mail client.

So you may be better off doing that. Installing sendmail is probably overkill to send one bug report.
And I've heard it's complicated to set up sendmail but IDK as I've never used it.

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man perlbug
will give you all the options
Title: Re: Help installing sendmail as requirement
Post by: strajder on 20 December 2021, 18:53:40
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendmail
Sendmail has a history of security vulnerabilities. I think it was among the first programs to have those listed.

I recommend msmtp instead:
https://marlam.de/msmtp/
Title: Re: Help installing sendmail as requirement
Post by: nous on 20 December 2021, 21:02:54
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How to install / have
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sendmail
as it is required when trying to report Perl bug

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It appears that there is no program which looks like "sendmail"
on your system.

Please help out !
It's unlikely you would want to run the full sendmail beast in your box, just to send an email It'll probably get marked as spam too (dynamic IPs...) You may want a lighter alternative like postfix (or an even more barebones one)  configured to use an external SMTP server. Not worth the trouble, IMHO.
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