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Re: use mailx instead of sendmail in apt-listchanges

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Hi,

On 3/6/19 5:40 am, Martin T wrote:
> What could be the most elegant workaround in this situation? Create
> a /usr/sbin/sendmail wrapper script which processes the 
> "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t" command called by apt_listchanges.py
> and sends the mail using mailx? Modify the apt_listchanges.py?
> Something else?

This is what I use on Devuan (and Debian previously):

# aptitude show bsd-mailx;echo;dpkg -L bsd-mailx;ls -lart
/etc/alternatives/mailx
Tue  4 Jun 04:27:41 AEST 2019 -- show bsd-mailx
Package: bsd-mailx
Version: 8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-4
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Maintainer: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 169 k
Depends: base-files (>= 2.2.0), default-mta | mail-transport-agent,
libbsd0 (>= 0.2.0), libc6 (>= 2.17), liblockfile1 (>= 1.0)
Provides: mail-reader, mailx
Description: simple mail user agent

Tags: implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, mail::smtp,
mail::user-agent, network::client, protocol::smtp, role::program,
suite::bsd, works-with::mail


/.
/etc
/etc/mail.rc
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/bsd-mailx
/usr/share
/usr/share/bsd-mailx
/usr/share/bsd-mailx/mail.help
/usr/share/bsd-mailx/mail.tildehelp
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/bsd-mailx
/usr/share/doc/bsd-mailx/NEWS.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/bsd-mailx/README.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/bsd-mailx/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/bsd-mailx/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/bsd-mailx/copyright
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/bsd-mailx.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 May 15 10:52 /etc/alternatives/mailx ->
/usr/bin/bsd-mailx


Cheers
AndrewM
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use mailx instead of sendmail in apt-listchanges Martin T <m4rtntns@gmail.com> - 2019-06-02 21:50 +0200
  Re: use mailx instead of sendmail in apt-listchanges Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-06-03 12:50 +0200
  Re: use mailx instead of sendmail in apt-listchanges Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2019-06-03 20:40 +0200
    Re: use mailx instead of sendmail in apt-listchanges Martin T <m4rtntns@gmail.com> - 2019-06-05 10:30 +0200

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