On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 at 23:02, Andrew Bower <and...@bower.uk> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 12:32:09PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 12:47:36PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote: > > > On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 at 12:01, Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> wrote: > > > > bsd-mailx > > > > > > i'm not sure, but i think this may be the problem --- looking at > > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/bsd-mailx/-/blob/master/send.c and > > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/bsd-mailx/-/blob/master/debian/patches/02-Base-fixes-1.patch > > > it seems debian has patched bsd-mailx to hardcode /tmp (im not sure > > > about this, i only read the code on salsa, and couldnt spot where the > > > directory was set)? > > > > ic! > > I've come along and done the easy bit... the attached patch causes mailx > to honour the TMPDIR environment variable, if set.
Thanks - this looks a good solution to me > Does this do enough to fix your originally-failing scenario? I tested a bsd-mailx with your patch applied in a systemd-nspawn container (unstable), with exim, and it fixed the original issue (which i could reproduce) i also installed postfix and it continued to work (but i didnt try this with the unpatched bsd-mailx). i tried to install ssmtp but it failed to install (seems unrelated, but i didnt investigate) > (I don't see that Debian overrode anything so much as setting an > otherwise undefined but required build-time definition for the default.) ah yes!
