Hi ports@,

Pinging back to see if anyone is interested in merging this patch for Alpine.

AFAIK Alpine has no active maintainer. The root cause of this bug is two-fold:

* Default config of Alpine has a dependency on /usr/sbin/sendmail -bs, which
is not supported by the default MTA. Patch below forces use of TCP to connect
to the local MTA as opposed to the fallback pipe connection, which gives a
working Alpine out of the box upon package installation.

* The default MTA should reject the -bs flag as invalid if it does not support
the SMTP-over-stdout mode of Sendmail. Separate patch to tech@ to prevent
future concealment of anomalous behavior.

Regards
Lloyd

Lloyd wrote:

> There is a bug in Alpine whereby out of the box it is unable to send email on
> an OpenBSD box, even locally. By default, sending a message in unconfigured
> Alpine will fork out to sendmail(8) which hangs for some unknown reason and
> the sendmail wrapper process needs to be killed. Receiving mail works fine.
> 
> [snip]

Index: Makefile
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RCS file: /cvs/ports/mail/alpine/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.63
diff -u -p -u -p -r1.63 Makefile
--- Makefile	28 Jan 2025 20:09:20 -0000	1.63
+++ Makefile	29 Apr 2025 01:00:09 -0000
@@ -99,7 +99,8 @@ post-install:
 		${WRKSRC}/doc/mailcap.unx \
 		${WRKSRC}/doc/mime.types \
 		${PREFIX}/share/doc/alpine
-	${WRKBUILD}/alpine/alpine -conf > \
+	${WRKBUILD}/alpine/alpine -conf | sed \
+		's/smtp-server=/smtp-server=localhost/' > \
 		${PREFIX}/share/examples/alpine/pine.conf
 	# c-client
 	# the relevant os_*.h is copied to osdep.h in build; others not needed