Hi,

I found some people suffer from the failure of sendbug(1). Because most
of them did not (or had no permission to) configure their sendmail(1)
properly, I suppose.

The following patch in order to solve this problem by adding a new
environment variable, PR_AGENT, which allows users to specify their own
MTA instead of the default sendmail(1). For example:

$ export PR_AGENT="/usr/local/bin/msmtp -a my_obsd_account -t"
$ sendbug


diff -u /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/sendbug/sendbug.1 sendbug/sendbug.1
--- /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/sendbug/sendbug.1 Tue Aug 1 18:10:33 2006
+++ sendbug/sendbug.1 Sun Apr 13 10:12:21 2008
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
.Ox
bugs database.
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
-.Bl -tag -width "PR_FORM"
+.Bl -tag -width "PR_AGENT"
.It Ev EDITOR
Specifies the editor to invoke on the template.
The default editor is
@@ -132,6 +132,9 @@
Used as the file name of the template for your problem-report editing session.
You can use this to start with a partially completed form (for example,
a form with the identification fields already completed).
+.It Ev PR_AGENT
+The absolute path to the program which override the default Mail Transfer Agent
+to send the PR.
.El
.Sh HOW TO FILL OUT A PROBLEM REPORT

diff -u /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/sendbug/sendbug.sh sendbug/sendbug.sh
--- /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/sendbug/sendbug.sh Tue Nov 30 05:57:45 2004
+++ sendbug/sendbug.sh Sun Apr 13 09:54:21 2008
@@ -57,11 +57,17 @@

# What mailer to use. This must come after the config file, since it is
# host-dependent.
-if [ -f /usr/sbin/sendmail ]; then
- MAIL_AGENT="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t"
+if [ X"$PR_AGENT" = X"" ]; then
+ if [ -f /usr/sbin/sendmail ]; then
+ MAIL_AGENT="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t"
+ else
+ MAIL_AGENT="/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t"
+ fi
else
- MAIL_AGENT="/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t"
+ # A user defined mail transfer agent.
+ MAIL_AGENT="$PR_AGENT"
fi
+
MAILER=`echo $MAIL_AGENT | sed -e 's, .*,,'`
if [ ! -f "$MAILER" ]; then
echo "$COMMAND: Cannot find mail program \"$MAILER\"."
--
Dasn