Re: How can reportbug sends an email witthout an MTA installed ?

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

aprekates wrote:
> But reportbug can send emails to BTS .
> How does it do that ?

In principle, i'd say by the SMTP internet protocol.
man 1 reportbug talks of /usr/bin/sendmail.

I guess the logic can be inspected at
  https://sources.debian.org/src/reportbug/7.5.1/reportbug/submit.py/#L202

In line 334 it starts an MTA and connects it by a pipe.
Alternatively, in line 353 it begins to talk SMTP to the host whose address
is in variable smtphost. This is done via a python class named "smtplib".

It should be possibile to distinguish the code paths used in your
local situation by the messages:
  ewrite("Sending message via %s...\n", mta)
  ewrite("Connecting to %s via SMTP...\n", smtphost)

Looking at
  https://packages.debian.org/unstable/reportbug
it may well be that it has found one of the suggested mail transport
agents.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas