"mail -f" is not working in notifications

[team@…]

It's Ubuntu 10.10. I installed sendmail and mail with apt-get install mailutils. This is a part of my trac.ini:

[notification]
email_sender = SendmailEmailSender
sendmail_path = /usr/bin/mail

This is what Trac 0.13dev-r10708 is saying:

Warning: The change has been saved, but an error occurred while 
sending notifications: Sendmail failed with (64, mail: -f requires at 
most one command line argument Try `mail --help' or `mail --usage' 
for more information.), command: '[u'/usr/bin/mail', '-i', '-f', 
u'trac@xxx', u'xxx@yahoo.com']'

What is it about and how can I fix it?

[team@…]

This is what mail --help is saying:

$ mail --help
Usage: mail [OPTION...] [address...]
  or:  mail [OPTION...] -f [OPTION...] [file]
  or:  mail [OPTION...] --file [OPTION...] [file]
  or:  mail [OPTION...] --file=file [OPTION...]
GNU mail -- process mail messages
If -f or --file is given, mail operates on the mailbox named by the first
argument, or the user's mbox, if no argument given.

  -a, --append=HEADER: VALUE append given header to the message being sent
  -e, --exist                return true if mail exists
  -E, --exec=COMMAND         execute COMMAND
  -F, --byname               save messages according to sender
  -H, --headers              write a header summary and exit
  -i, --ignore               ignore interrupts
  -n, --norc                 do not read the system mailrc file
  -N, --nosum                do not display initial header summary
  -p, -r, --print, --read    print all mail to standard output
  -q, --quit                 cause interrupts to terminate program
  -s, --subject=SUBJ         send a message with the given SUBJECT
  -t, --to                   precede message by a list of addresses
  -u, --user=USER            operate on USER's mailbox
      --tls[=BOOL]           enable TLS support

 Common options
      --config-file=FILE, --rcfile=FILE
                             load this configuration file
      --config-help          show configuration file summary
      --config-lint, --rcfile-lint
                             check configuration file syntax and exit
      --config-verbose, --rcfile-verbose
                             verbosely log parsing of the configuration files
      --no-site-config, --no-site-rcfile
                             do not load site configuration file
      --no-user-config, --no-user-rcfile
                             do not load user configuration file
      --show-config-options  show compilation options


 Global debugging settings
      --debug-level=LEVEL    set Mailutils debugging level
      --debug-line-info      show source info with debugging messages

      --license              print license and exit

  -?, --help                 give this help list
      --usage                give a short usage message
  -V, --version              print program version

Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional
for any corresponding short options.

Report bugs to <bug-mailutils@gnu.org>.

[team@…]

Looks like the right configuration is:

[notification]
email_sender = SendmailEmailSender
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail

Maybe we should add some hint to documentation? To avoid such questions in the future.

[Remy Blank]

Replying to team@…:

Maybe we should add some hint to documentation? To avoid such questions in the future.

I would have thought that the name of the option (sendmail_path) is explicit enough, but feel free to edit the documentation as you see fit.

[psuter <petsuter@…>]

Replying to team@…:

Maybe we should add some hint to documentation? To avoid such questions in the future.

Did you see TracNotification#ExampleConfigurationsendmail?

[Christian Boos]

Seems the documentation is clear enough.