Bug 2377095

Summary:	RFE: sendmail symlink and RPM provides
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Thomas Moschny <thomas.moschny>
Component:	msmtp	Assignee:	Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	epel9	CC:	epel-packagers-sig, lemenkov, ndevos, romain.geissler, wart
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Description Thomas Moschny 2025-07-08 09:19:56 UTC

Would it be possible for msmtp to provide the /usr/sbin/sendmail symlink (and also have the RPM provide it)?

I know it already provides /usr/lib/sendmail (via alternatives) but it seems some packages (e.g. fail2band-sendmail) require /usr/sbin/sendmail (but maybe it's their fault - not sure).

Currently /usr/sbin/sendmail is provided by esmtp, ssmtp, exim, opensmtpd, postfix and sendmail packages, and I wonder whether /usr/sbin/sendmail should be handled via alternatives as well, but that would need a coordinated effort.

Comment 1 Thomas Moschny 2025-07-08 14:56:00 UTC

Ok, looking at the package again, /usr/sbin/sendmail is actually already there (and controlled via alternatives) - not sure why I didn't saw it. Anyway, what is then still missing is the Provides: on RPM level.

Comment 2 Thomas Moschny 2025-10-28 20:11:40 UTC

Ping?

So just to clarify: I'm basically asking for addition of these lines in the %files section

%ghost %{_sbindir}/sendmail
%ghost %{_bindir}/mailq
%ghost %{_prefix}/lib/sendmail
%ghost %{_mandir}/man1/mailq.1.gz
%ghost %{_mandir}/man8/sendmail.8.gz

Thanks!

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2026-03-26 13:30:20 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2026-7421eae2ae (msmtp-1.8.25-6.el9) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 9.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-7421eae2ae

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2026-03-27 01:02:38 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2026-7421eae2ae has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-7421eae2ae

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2026-04-04 00:26:14 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2026-7421eae2ae (msmtp-1.8.25-6.el9) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.