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From: | EuAndreh |
Subject: | [bug#59701] [PATCH] gnu: mailutils: Inform correct path of sendmail. |
Date: | Thu, 1 Dec 2022 10:30:46 +0000 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.5.0 |
Can we change that value to $PATH? I checked and I don't have sendmail in /run/setuid-programs, and I know I'd use my msmtp setup for sendmail *for myself* but not for the system if it were available.
With mailutils, I'm afraid this can't be done.What our Nix friends do is have a module (which is equivalent to a Guix service) that accepts a "setSendmail" option [0] which, when true, adds the a setuid msmtp binary wrapper [1].
That mixes up user-level and system-level configuration, and the only way around is add a user-level alias wrapper for mailutils wrapper that
specifies where to find sendmail at runtime:alias mail="mail -E'set sendmail=\"$HOME/.guix-home/profile/bin/msmtp\"'"
Doing this to the mailutils package definition would require juggling some options around and knowing very well how mailutils handles options, so that the dynamic lookup of the sendmail binary doesn't break anything else.
[0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/353a64f7bac4230a46dfa47a6212902c622b98a2/nixos/modules/programs/msmtp.nix#L15 [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/353a64f7bac4230a46dfa47a6212902c622b98a2/nixos/modules/programs/msmtp.nix#L76
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