Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 19:21 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote:
> Scripsit Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 11:04 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote:
> >> Scripsit "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
> >> > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:13:46PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote:
[snip]
> >> 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.
>
> > Not all people have their systems configured that way.
>
> The point is that they could if the wanted to. And if they did, it
> would work for _all_ programs, not just particular perl scripts that
> happen to use some obscure perl module to send mails.
mail-transport-agent postinst config scripts will have to be a
lot more clever, then, and explain things like relayhosts to non-
sysadmins.
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