Re: DebConf18: Call for keys for keysigning in Hsinchu, Taiwan
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 8:36 PM Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> wrote:
> - If user don't configure a working MTA, it's hard to send out the
> email. Especially for new contributor.
> There're many reasons not to set up a working MTA. I know it's
> possible to setup exim4 as smarthost [3], but .. personally, I don't
> like to be flooded by notice, such as cron job of my own machine
> everyday. And I don't like my gmail credential being saved as plain
> text in system.
> So what I recommend is using msmtp, which already works well with
> caff [4][5]. In this way, the gmail credential can be saved as
> encrypted file by GPG, and got decrypted on-the-fly when you send
> email [6].
> After set msmtp up, we can use almost the same command as sendmail,
> just replace sendmail with msmtp:
I'm not sure if a MTA is necessary when using caff. But for my
personal practice, I use pius[1] as a replacement for caff, which uses
python smtp module, thus you can connect to your SMTP provider, and it
will ask you password interactively.
Hope when you discuss the new guide, you can add pius as a second consideration.
[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pius
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Best regards,
Shengjing Zhu
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