Re: [bug-mailutils] [Feature request] Find "sendmail" in $PATH at runtime

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi Bjørn,

> For packaging mailutils in Nix/NixOS I/we would like to have the
> "mail" program lookup the path to "sendmail" at runtime via the $PATH
> environment variable.

Have you considered the security implications of such a move?

> How to do that?

There's no way to do this currently, except for symlinking the actual
sendmail-compatible binary (whatever it is in your distro) to the
predefined path (preferably, to the place defined by _PATH_SENDMAIL
in your /usr/include/paths.h). In fact, that's what all distros that
I've ever seen do.

Best regards,
Sergey