mailx (e.g. mailx-heirloom) is not supported to send notifications

[andy.melnikov@…]

If I set the following in trac.ini, it doesn't work:

email_sender = SendmailEmailSender
sendmail_path = mailx

The error message I get is:

Sendmail failed with (2, More than one file given with -f 
Usage: mailx -eiIUdEFntBDNHRV~ -T FILE -u USER -h hops -r address 
-s SUBJECT -a FILE -q FILE -f FILE -A ACCOUNT -b USERS -c USERS 
-S OPTION users), 
command: '[u'mailx', '-i', '-f', u'xxx@yyy.com', u'xxx@gmail.com', u'yyy@gmail.com']

The reason for that is that -r flag should be used instead of -f in case of mailx. So it would be nice to have mailx supported, for example, by having MailxEmailSender in addition to SendmailEmailSender.

Is there any known workarounds?

[Remy Blank]

As the name of the component implies, we support sendmail-compatible mailers, and therefore the command-line options of sendmail. You could create a MailxEmailSender (in a single-file plugin), but adding a complete new component just for one changing option seems a bit overkill. You could also use a wrapper script that calls mailx with the right options, something like:

#!/bin/bash
shift 2
exec mailx -r "$@"