Re: How can reportbug sends an email witthout an MTA installed ?

[aprekates <aprekates@posteo.net>]

Thanks! Your answer get straight to the ... source of things :-)

I guess the python smptlib does the job in my case.


On 25/12/18 2:36 μ.μ., Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> aprekates wrote:
> > But reportbug can send emails to BTS .
> > How does it do that ?
> In principle, i'd say by the SMTP internet protocol.
> man 1 reportbug talks of /usr/bin/sendmail.
>
> I guess the logic can be inspected at
>    https://sources.debian.org/src/reportbug/7.5.1/reportbug/submit.py/#L202
>
> In line 334 it starts an MTA and connects it by a pipe.
> Alternatively, in line 353 it begins to talk SMTP to the host whose address
> is in variable smtphost. This is done via a python class named "smtplib".
>
> It should be possibile to distinguish the code paths used in your
> local situation by the messages:
>    ewrite("Sending message via %s...\n", mta)
>    ewrite("Connecting to %s via SMTP...\n", smtphost)
>
> Looking at
>    https://packages.debian.org/unstable/reportbug
> it may well be that it has found one of the suggested mail transport
> agents.
>
>
> Have a nice day :)
>
> Thomas