Description of Problem: The nmh package included with 7.1 uses sendmail directly which impairs some of the functions of nmh. In particular nmh allows the user varying levels of control over the From: line (see mh-tailor(5)) but if sendmail is used as the transport rather than SMTP, it puts in an authentication warning that gives away the underlying user address. This is undesirable in many environments where the raw UNIX user name is not the official e-mail address, or where people have multiple e-mail addresses and want to be able to use different ones without giving another away. Most e-mail clients these days use SMTP directly, including other ones Redhat ships (eg. Netscape Communicator), and 7.1 ships with a local SMTP server enabled, so nmh should be build to use this. If you're really worried about it, provide two packages, say nmh-smtp and nmh-sendmail so people can go either way. How Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information:
Filed against wrong component (Distutils) - reassigning.
I ran into this bug this morning, having upgraded yesterday from RH6.2 to RH7.1; none of my outgoing e-mail is being delivered at the moment because the "mts.conf" file that I restored from my RH6.2 system is being ignored. Specifically, the "post" backend-command in the RH7.1 distribution seems to ignore the "servers" line in mts.conf - the line which in theory should direct the mail to be sent to my mailserver - and instead seems to be hardwired to call /usr/lib/sendmail, try-as-I-might to dissuade it. If the problem *is* due to a configuration option in the RH7.1 distribution, then I can trivially uninstall NMH and recompile it from scratch; that said, I would prefer that the program still worked as documented in the manpages, and indeed as used to be in RH6.* Thanks,