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mail/postfix: install bin/{mailq,newaliases}?
I'm asking myself whether mail/postfix should be installing bin/mailq and bin/newaliases (which are symlinks to sbin/sendmail) on a system equipped with mailwrapper(8).
This has bitten me in three different ways:
1. On a system with pkgsrc postfix installed, but deliberately using postfix
from base (and mailer.conf set to base), calling mailq (with /usr/pkg/bin in
PATH before /usr/bin) called the wrong thing.
2. On a system with pkgsrc postfix installed, in use, but mailer.conf
mistakenly configured to base (and /usr/pkg/bin in PATH ahead of /usr/bin),
the mis-configuration was partly hidden because mailq called the pkgsrc
version.
3. On a build server with pkgsrc postfix installed, net/nagios-plugins
configures it check_mailq to call /usr/pkg/bin/mailq, which fails on
systems without pkgsrc postfix installed (while calling /usr/bin/mailq
would work regardless of postfix being installed or not).
Opinions? One could argue that:
1. occurs wherever a package shadows a program from base
2. is a level 8 problem
3. should be dealt with by teaching the configury to use /usr/bin/mailq if
present whenever /etc/mailer.conf exists or it's a link to
/usr/sbin/mailwrapper.
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