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Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email



Henning Makholm wrote:
> Scripsit "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
>> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:13:46PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote:
> 
>>> Why not just install some software that can speak SMTP as the chroot's
>>> /usr/bin/sendmail? E.g. nullmailer.
> 
>> nullmailer is, in general, broken.
> 
> Then something else. One can easily envisage installing as
> /usr/bin/sendmail something that reads an email, immediately
> sends it to a smarthost via SMTP and exits with an error if a problem
> happened. No daemon, no local spool.
> 
> That would be accessible to _all_ programs whether they are written in
> Perl or not.

But I still not get it why not to use Email::Send and choose method
there? Email::Send is not another sendmail replacement - it's abstract
method for using mailers in way you want to use.

> There is a reason for having standardised interfaces. It is that they
> can be implemented in different ways.

And each could be used with this module.

  eloy
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