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



Scripsit Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>

> More generally, Perl modules to send mail rather than using
> /usr/sbin/sendmail are often useful with web applications (or other
> applications that need security isolation) that are running in a chroot.
> To use /usr/sbin/sendmail in the chroot requires setting up a chroot
> maildrop, and while there are packages to do this, using some module that
> can speak SMTP is often the path of least resistance.

Why not just install some software that can speak SMTP as the chroot's
/usr/bin/sendmail? E.g. nullmailer.

-- 
Henning Makholm              "Wir kommen nun ans Ziel unserer Ausführungen."



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