Tags: patch Hi,
Here's a patch to use sendmail directly, instead of relying on mailx. sendmail -t should work with any decent MTA. Greetings, Bas.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 3a8cc38..71b18fa 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+cron-apt (0.9.6.bas) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * test sendmail
+
+ -- Bas Zoetekouw <b...@debian.org> Mon, 28 Nov 2016 11:03:16 +0100
+
cron-apt (0.9.6) unstable; urgency=medium
* Correction to make it work with space in XHEADERS. Closes: #813609.
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index f12fb70..4438d01 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Standards-Version: 3.9.6
Package: cron-apt
Architecture: all
Depends: apt, ${misc:Depends}
-Recommends: liblockfile1, mailx, cron | cron-daemon
+Recommends: liblockfile1, cron | cron-daemon, mail-transport-agent
Description: automatic update of packages using apt-get
Contains a tool that is run by a cron job at regular intervals. By default it
just updates the package list and downloads new packages without installing.
diff --git a/src/functions b/src/functions
index 8ff2d74..4e3dcf0 100644
--- a/src/functions
+++ b/src/functions
@@ -94,27 +94,29 @@ onexit() {
rm -f "$RUNMAIL"
fi
if [ -f "$MAIL" ] && [ "$MAILON" != "never" ] && [ -n "$MAILON" ] ; then
- if command -v mail >/dev/null; then
+ if command -v sendmail >/dev/null; then
+ hdr="To: $MAILTO"
if [ -z "$HOSTNAME" ]; then
HOSTNAME="$(uname -n)"
fi
- SUBJECT="CRON-APT completed on $HOSTNAME [$CONFIG]"
if [ -f "$ERROR" ] ; then
- SUBJECT="CRON-APT error on $HOSTNAME [$CONFIG]"
+ hdr=$(printf "$hdr\nSubject: CRON-APT error on $HOSTNAME
[$CONFIG]")
+ else
+ hdr=$(printf "$hdr\nSubject: CRON-APT completed on $HOSTNAME
[$CONFIG]")
fi
# Support for XHEADERS
i=1
eval "VAL=\${XHEADER$i}"
while [ ! -z "$VAL" ] ; do
- XHEADERS="$XHEADERS -a \"$VAL\""
+ hdr=$(printf "$hdr\n$VAL")
i=$(( $i + 1 ))
eval "VAL=\${XHEADER$i}"
done
#
- eval mail $XHEADERS -s \"$SUBJECT\" \"$MAILTO\" < "$MAIL"
+ ( printf "$hdr\n"; echo; cat $MAIL ) | sendmail -t
else
- echo >&2 "cron-apt was configured to send e-mail, but no mail
binary found in path."
- echo >&2 "Either set MAILON=never in configuration or install the
mailx package."
+ echo >&2 "cron-apt was configured to send e-mail, but no sendmail
binary was found in path."
+ echo >&2 "Either set MAILON=never in configuration or install an
MTA package."
fi
rm -f "$MAIL"
fi
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