From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject: Re: alpine(1) man page has broken project URL
To: Lloyd <ng2d68@proton.me>
Cc: Tim Chase <openbsd@tim.thechases.com>, ports@openbsd.org
Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 10:25:42 +0100

On 2025/05/31 00:00, Lloyd wrote:
> on the topic of alpine, any chance to merge the below patch?

i've just committed a modified version.

> It restores an OOTB functioning alpine upon fresh port installation.
> 
> alpine broke when smtpd(8) was merged into base and made the default
> MTA. smtpd(8) does not support nor reject the -bs flag when invoked
> as `sendmail` (this is hard coded in alpine) and causes alpine to
> hang when sending mail to the local MTA using /usr/sbin/sendmail. I
> posted a separate patch to tech@ for that a while back as well, but
> it simply improves the behavior of smtpctl(8) and doesn't fix alpine
> because the flag is just not implemented in smtpd(8). For alpine to
> send mail locally with smtpd(8) it must connect over TCP/IP. This is
> the cleanest way to fix it without impacting existing installations.

it would be better if smtpd's sendmail(8) interface was compatible with
traditional behaviour really.

> Index: Makefile
> ===================================================================
> 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
> 
> Stuart Henderson wrote:
> 
> > On 2025/05/30 08:29, Tim Chase wrote:
> > 
> > > $ man alpine | grep https
> > > Alpine-info, at https://www.washington.edu/alpine/alpine-info/
> > > 
> > > This link is broken and appears to have been moved to
> > > 
> > > https://alpineapp.email/
> > 
> > 
> > That's for the mailing list,
> > 
> > $ man alpine | grep -B1 https
> > Mailing List:
> > Alpine-info, at https://www.washington.edu/alpine/alpine-info/
> > 
> > which seems to be no more. There's no mailing list at
> > https://alpineapp.email/.
> > 
> > I suggest reporting upstream as this will be affecting everyone not
> > just OpenBSD users.
>