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

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 22:39 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote:
> Scripsit Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 19:21 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote:
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> Are you implying that the perl library in question is able to figure
> out these things without guidance from the sysadmin? In that case the
> AI code that does it ought to be appropriated and worked into our MTA
> postinst scripts.

Of course not.

T-bird, Evo, Outlook, etc don't figure it out either.  They ask 
the user, "What's the name of your ISP's outgoing mail server?"

Here's the relevant question from "reportbug --config"

    Do you have a "mail transport agent" (MTA) like Exim, Postfix
    or SSMTP configured on this computer? [y|N|q|?]? 

If you take the default N, it asks you:

    Please enter the name of your SMTP host. Usually it's called
    something like "mail.example.org" or "smtp.example.org". Just 
    press ENTER if you don't have one or don't know.

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