caff in the signing-party package can't find sendmail on GuixSD

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Christopher Baines wrote on 15 Sep 2017 20:33
(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
20170915193348.5491e73f@cbaines.net
When using caff from the signing-tools pacakge, it looks for sendmail
in the wrong places [1]. It would be useful to find a way to make it
work when installed.

I have found a workaround, which is to specify PERL_MAILERS as
sendmail:$(type -p sendmail), e.g.:

PERL_MAILERS=sendmail:$(type -p sendmail) caff ...

1: /usr/lib/sendmail;/usr/sbin/sendmail;/usr/ucblib/sendmail
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Ricardo Wurmus wrote on 9 Oct 2017 23:37
(name . Christopher Baines)(address . mail@cbaines.net)(address . 28470@debbugs.gnu.org)
87infom28i.fsf@elephly.net
Hi Christopher,

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> When using caff from the signing-tools pacakge, it looks for sendmail
> in the wrong places [1]. It would be useful to find a way to make it
> work when installed.
>
> I have found a workaround, which is to specify PERL_MAILERS as
> sendmail:$(type -p sendmail), e.g.:
>
> PERL_MAILERS=sendmail:$(type -p sendmail) caff ...
>
> 1: /usr/lib/sendmail;/usr/sbin/sendmail;/usr/ucblib/sendmail

What is the expected behaviour here? Does it *only* work with sendmail?
Or would any mailer (like msmtp) work? Should the user’s default mailer
be used or should we embed a reference to a specific mailer?

--
Ricardo, an msmtp user

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Christopher Baines wrote on 10 Oct 2017 09:31
(name . Ricardo Wurmus)(address . rekado@elephly.net)(address . 28470@debbugs.gnu.org)
20171010083132.62fb5c45@cbaines.net
On Mon, 09 Oct 2017 23:37:49 +0200
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

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> Hi Christopher,
>
> > When using caff from the signing-tools pacakge, it looks for
> > sendmail in the wrong places [1]. It would be useful to find a way
> > to make it work when installed.
> >
> > I have found a workaround, which is to specify PERL_MAILERS as
> > sendmail:$(type -p sendmail), e.g.:
> >
> > PERL_MAILERS=sendmail:$(type -p sendmail) caff ...
> >
> > 1: /usr/lib/sendmail;/usr/sbin/sendmail;/usr/ucblib/sendmail
>
> What is the expected behaviour here? Does it *only* work with
> sendmail? Or would any mailer (like msmtp) work? Should the user’s
> default mailer be used or should we embed a reference to a specific
> mailer?

I don't have any expectations, but ideally, it would work without
specifying this environment variable.

I think approaches other than sendmail are supported [1], but I'm
unsure if that includes msmtp.


This is probably more about the Mail::Mailer perl package in the
perl-mailtools package, than caff, that just uses Mail::Mailer.

I spent a bit of time looking at the Mail::Mailer source code when
trying to get caff working, but unfortunately, bits of it are still a
bit cryptic to me.
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