On 2016年09月08日 09:51, TJ Saunders wrote: > >> There is a question about the ftpmail of the package proftpd. >> root@super_micro-1:~# rpm -qf /usr/bin/ftpmail >> >> proftpd-1.3.5a-r0.0.corei7_64 >> >> In my environment, the ftpmail fails to run as it lacks the dependency >> >> on Mail/Sendmail.pm which is not shipped by default and >> >> also not maintained more than 10 years as >> http://search.cpan.org/~mivkovic/Mail-Sendmail/Sendmail.pm. > > Patches for updates to the ftpmail script are highly encouraged! If the > Mail-Sendmail package is not to your preference, what would you > suggest/prefer using instead?
Thanks TJ for your response! Haven't figured out the better substitute. Thanks, > >> How do we plan to support the ftpmail? Add the dependency module as >> self-contained in proftpd package > > No. That is not done for any of the other Perl modules that the contrib > scripts might use, and bundling such things tends to cause them to > become out-of-date with respect to e.g. CPAN, due to the differing > release schedules of ProFTPD, versus those modules. Okay, though the Mail-Sendmail is not updated since Feb 6, 2003 at CPAN. Thanks, > >> just remove the ftpmail script as I >> noticed that other distribution such as fedora, ubuntu, centos not ship >> the script ftpmail by default. > > Those distributions do not include ftpmail in their _packages_, but that > is a very different > thing that not including the script in the _source_ release of ProFTPD. > > If you don't/can't use the ftpmail script on your systems, then don't > use it. > > Cheers, > TJ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ ProFTPD Developers List <[email protected]> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/proftp-devel
