On 1/12/07, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-12 15:50]:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 12:30:32PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote:
> > * Lars Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-12 08:20]:
> > > On Friday 12 January 2007 13:04, noob lenoobie wrote:
> > > > My problem is the following : I'm unable to send mail from php.
> > >
> > > the php mail() function will not work in chroot (unless you install the 
chroot
> > > flavour of the mini-sendmail package).
> >
> > err.. ...unless you make mail work inside the chroot.
> > and since mini_sendmail is a piece of shit, i recomment femail, but I
> > might be biased :)
>
> I'm curious - why do you feel mini_sendmail is 'a piece of shit'? I've
> never given much thought to it, but it has worked well for a couple of
> years now, and femail doesn't seem to do things very differently.

well, it's a bit that I looked at mini_sendmail's code, but it was
horrid.
second, it does not nearly implement RFC282{1,2} correctly. the parser
is horribly incomplete and broken.

> I'll have to admit that mini_sendmail's website sucks, but at least the
> man page doesn't misspell 'environment' (at least in the DESCRIPTION on
> http://unduli.bsws.de/femail/femail.8.html). ;-)

oh well


Just out of interest does femail need a sh in the chroot like mini_sendmail?

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