302977 - Use /usr/lib/sendmail consistently everywhere

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Bugzilla :: Email Notifications, defect)

Description

[u44081]

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The majority of docs and code in 2.18 (and earlier) use /usr/lib/sendmail as  
the default location for the sendmail.  Some of the stuff in contrib/  
uses /usr/sbin/sendmail, and the glossary (incorrectly) refers to it as the 
default location.  I'd suggest using /usr/lib/sendmail everywhere. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[u44081]

Attachment: Use /usr/lib/sendmail everywhere

This is against Bugzilla_Stable.  The contrib/ hunks here seem somewhat
applicable to > 2.18 too, but the glossary needs a more thorough rewrite there
(will add a separate report for it in a jiffy).

Comment 2

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

I'm fairly sure that /usr/sbin/sendmail would be the canonical location for the
sendmail binary, and /usr/lib/sendmail would be the legacy location.

Comment 3

[u44081]

Sure, but Bugzilla has defaulted to /usr/lib/sendmail for a long time.  While 
changing the default would most likely not break anything, it'd be easier to 
just be consistent with the existing historical default everywhere for the 
2.18 series.  2.20 is of course a different story, things have changed pretty 
much in it. 

Comment 4

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Since we no longer call the sendmail binary directly, this isn't an issue anymore.