Re: Symbolic link to mhmail

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hello Thomas,

kre has given a good answer and I'd do what he suggested, but...

> This issue comes from the fact that I wanted to use the
> unattended-upgrades package on Debian which uses mailx to send
> reports.  Since only nmh is detected as providing a compatible mailx
> program, mailx redirects to /usr/bin/mh/mhmail.

Are you saying that Debian puts in the symlink from /usr/bin/mhmail to
/usr/bin/mh/mhmail when selecting nmh as one of the alternative packages
to provide a virtual package which unattended-upgrades depends upon?

That sounds flawed for the reason you gave.  Does Debian have a central
place to manipulate PATH to append /usr/bin/mh for unattended-upgrades?
apt-file(1) here suggests there's
a /lib/systemd/system/unattended-upgrades.service so perhaps a local
file to override its PATH?

Which version of Debian is this?  ‘lsb_release -a’ shows this.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.