Re: [msmtp-users] msmtp: runtime fails with "Bad value for ai_flags"

[Lonnie Abelbeck <lists@...387...>]

On Jan 2, 2015, at 3:02 PM, Martin Lambers <marlam@...23...> wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 11:04:55 -0600, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:
>>> I suggest --enable-gai-idn. 
>>> 
>>> See the attached patch.
>> 
>> I tested your patch and it works for me with --disable-gai-idn
>> defined.
>> 
>> Ship it! :-)
> 
> Thanks for testing this. I pushed it to git master, is that good enough
> for you or do you need a release?

A 1.6.1 release would be best, but we have a temporary solution until the next official release.


> 
>> BTW, I had a hair-pulling time getting the patched configure.ac
>> working, normally in Buildroot setting "MSMTP_AUTORECONF = YES" would
>> all that would be needed, but when the AUTORECONF occurred I got...
>> -- configure.ac:44: warning: macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in
>> library configure.ac:44: error: possibly undefined macro:
>> AM_GNU_GETTEXT
> 
> You need the gettext development package so that autoreconf works (it
> will then find the gettext macros).

Buildroot has a host autoconf (compiled from source) but for some reason disables the gettext macros with ac_cv_prog_gnu_m4_gnu=no, not sure why.


>>> An unrelated question: why are you using glibc without IDN support?
>>> Libidn is included in the glibc sources; I cannot see a reason to
>>> disable it.
>> 
>> Well, good question...  We (AstLinux: http://www.astlinux.org ) have
>> a quite optimized ~ 50 MB image, more of an "appliance" than a
>> "distro".  We use Buildroot to cross-compile and an external eglibc
>> toolchain created by crosstool-ng.  By default crosstool-ng does not
>> include libidn in eglibc, and there was a related crosstool-ng issue
>> a couple years ago, but is probably fixed today.  Regardless we don't
>> enable anything we don't think we need.
> 
> Thank you for taking the time to explain. It's always interesting to
> find out where msmtp is used. Although I must admit, after reading the
> AstLinux front page I'm still not sure what it actually is, or more
> precisely, how it is used :)

AstLinux is primarily a platform for running the Asterisk (PBX), every emailed voicemail goes out via msmtp.

AstLinux runs on x86 hardware. For a small business often at the public interface (Firewall/Router/VPN/PBX), some use only the Asterisk PBX functionality internally behind a firewall.

Lonnie


> 
> Martin