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From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: location of msmtp system-wide configuration
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 02:43:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a43f1570-c87b-6b83-c8bf-b824a1aacc40@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191002004739.GA5215@zebra>

On 2019-10-01 18:47, Stephen Carrier wrote:
> The latest verion of the msmtp package: 1.8.5+20190811+git7912c76-1 .
> Differs from the previous version: 1.6.6-1 .
> 
> In that the location of the system-wide configuration file is changed
> from /etc/msmtprc to /usr/etc/msmtprc.
> 
> I think this has the potential to break installations during an upgrade.
> 
> In my case it only confused me as I set up a new system.
> 
> Please consider changing this default back to what it was for the
> convenience of those who will otherwise need to figure this out.

Definitely not a standard location and nothing there currently on my system.
The package contents shows only server configuration, nothing on /usr/etc/, no
defaults provided in /etc/defaults/usr/etc/, and /usr/bin/msmtp-config defaults
the CONFDIR to /etc, so unless you have a symlink, link or junction from /etc to
/usr/etc, or changed the location during the server config, /etc/ should have
been used.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-02  2:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-02  0:47 Stephen Carrier
2019-10-02  2:43 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2019-10-02 18:18   ` Stephen Carrier
2019-10-02 19:38     ` msmtp 1.8.5 built using ${prefix}/${SYSCONFDIR} Brian Inglis
2019-10-09 20:03       ` Stephen Carrier
2019-10-09 20:10         ` Ken Brown
2019-10-10 10:09           ` Jari Aalto
2019-10-11  1:45             ` Stephen Carrier

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