[Alpine-info] using dma with alpine

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Rick Troxel wrote:


> To pipe to sendmail is the built-in default when alpine's smtp-server

> configuration variable is unset.


   I would expect that, but according all the tests I made, that's not true:
   I did them once again before replying, and that gave, as before,
   with the following script for sendmail:

      date >> /tmp/sm.log
      cat >> /tmp/sm.log

    and the result was:
    1/ with smtp-server and sendmail-path unset
       only the date is written in the log file, which proves that
       sendmail is actually called, but with nothing in stdin
    2/ with smtp-server unset and sendmail-path=/usr/sbin/sendmail
       the log shows the date AND the complete mail (headers and body)

    How do you explain that?
    Can you reproduce these tests?

best regards,
-- 
Pierre Frenkiel