Cornelia Menzel wrote:

>Hello everybody!
>
>I am trying to emerge slrn, but I get this error message:
>
>--snip--
>checking for sendmail .... no
>configure: error:
>I can't find a sendmail executable, slrn requires a mail transport agent for 
>sending e-mail.
>Please make sure sendmail is in your $PATH or use the --with-mta option to 
>point configure to a 
>different MTA (giving the full pathname and all needed command line 
>arguments). 
>--snap--
>
>As I do not use sendmail but nbsmtp, I should point configure to 
>/usr/bin/nbsmtp.
>
>But I do not know how to do this. I understand, that using Gentoo I have to 
>emerge 'instead' of install 
>the programms. When I was using SuSE, I could install programms by the way 
>'configure' (where I can 
>give options), 'make' and 'install'. But now, I not even know how to do this 
>under Gentoo.
>
>Can anybody help me with this?
>
>Every help is very much appreciated.
>
>Kind regards,
>Nelly
>
>  
>
Hi,
Think that making a link "ln -s /usr/bin/nbsmtp /usr/sbin/sendmail will
do the trick (or virtual/mta).
HTH. Rumen

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