On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:11:17AM -0400, James Vega wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Filipus Klutiero <chea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On April 12, 2010 10:26:57 pm James Vega wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 02:44:04PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > >> > bts is failing the same way on 2 machines on 2 tested: > >> > > >> > $ LANG=C bts tags 407598 - fixed-upstream > >> > User-Agent: devscripts bts/2.10.62: No such file or directory > >> > bts: mail: > >> > chea...@vinci:~$ > >> > > >> > This happens with version 2.10.61 (testing) too. It seems unusable. I'm > >> > not using bts regularly, but it would be surprising that bts was > >> > completely broken. > >> > >> The part of the script in which this occurs is where we fork/exec the > >> mail process. It basically boils down to: > >> > >> printf "tags 407598 - fixed-upstream\nthanks\n" | mail -s "tagging 407598" > >> -a "User-Agent: devscripts bts/2.10.62" cont...@bugs.debian.org > >> > >> Although the above isn't exactly what's happening, does that work? The > >> error message you're getting seems like it may be due to not finding > >> mail, but I'd expect to see more than just "No such file or directory". > > > > It doesn't work. The output for your test was > > User-Agent: devscripts bts/2.10.62: No such file or directory > > > > This happens because mail is provided by heirloom-mailx, for which -a means: > > > > -a file > > Attach the given file to the message. > > Interesting. That throws a wrench in the works. Do you know how one > would specify extra mail headers using heirloom-mailx?
After further investigation, there isn't a way to specify extra headers with standard mail/mailx. In light of that, it looks like the most robust option is to require either of $DEBEMAIL or $EMAIL to be set in the environment and drop support for using mail/mailx to send emails. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <james...@debian.org>
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