qpopper compile failure

[David Southwell]

On Tuesday 13 March 2012 07:23:37 Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 13/03/2012 13:01, David Southwell wrote:
> > qpopper has been working fine (amd64 running postfix) but on portupgrade
> > I am Getting the following error:
> > 
> > set MISSING_OBJS to  base64.o
> > set MISSING_SRCS to  base64.c
> > Set AR_FLAG =  -r ; RANLIB_CMD =
> > checking for sendmail program... ERROR: The sendmail program cannot be
> > located ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
> > 
> > 
> > sendmail is
> > [root at dns1 /usr/ports/mail/qpopper]# whereis sendmail
> > sendmail: /usr/local/sbin/sendmail /usr/local/man/man1/sendmail.1.gz
> > /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail
> > 
> > qpopper config log includes the following lines:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > PATH: /usr/local/kde4/bin
> > PATH: /sbin
> > PATH: /bin
> > PATH: /usr/sbin
> > PATH: /usr/bin
> > PATH: /usr/games
> > PATH: /usr/local/sbin
> > PATH: /usr/local/share/lprof
> > PATH: /usr/local/bin
> > PATH: /home/admin/bin
> > 
> > Does anyone have any idea why this error might occur?
> 
> Yes.  All unix apps that send e-mail expect to do it by piping the mail
> into /usr/sbin/sendmail.  Despite the name, on FreeBSD that is not
> actually sendmail-brand sendmail, but mailwrapper(8) -- a handy program
> that redirects that piped input into the MTA of your choice.
> 
> (sendmail q.v. is actually in /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail)
> 
> Restore /usr/sbin/sendmail and verify that the contents of
> /etc/mail/mailer.conf are sane, and qpopper should spring into life again.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
Does that not produce problems with postfix?
How do we retain mailwrapper functionality?

spf was working fine until upgrading. What has changed? Atm I have spf turned 
off until I get this sorted.
David