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Re: "set sendmail", does it need the full path?



On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 08:55:07AM -0700, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Monday, March 19 at 03:44 PM, quoth Eur Ing Chris Green:
> > However it seems to me that mutt requires the full path to 
> > 'sendmail' in the muttrc file and that's a bit difficult to do in my 
> > present situation because I can't have a path that looks the same 
> > whether I'm on Linux or Solaris but actually points to a different 
> > place for each.
> 
> What I do in situations like that is I set up $sendmail to be 
> $HOME/.sendmail.sh and then in that script, I have something like 
> this:
> 
>     #!/bin/sh
>     if [ $ARCH == "solaris" ] ; then
>         exec /path/to/solaris/sendmail "$@"
>     else if [ $ARCH == "Linux" ] ; then
>         exec /path/to/linux/sendmail "$@"
>     fi
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
Yes, OK, thanks.  I wasn't quite sure if running via a wrapper script
would be OK.  If the above works then it's ideal.

-- 
Chris Green