Re: [Cvs-syncmail] Please enable the /usr/sbin/sendmail interface for sending out mail

[Fred L. D. Jr. <fd...@ac...>]

Kevin Rosenberg writes:
 > Hello CVS-Syncmail gang,
 > 
 > I'm forwarding a feature request from a Debian user.

Thanks!

Joost van Baal wrote:
 > I'd be nice if syncmail could supply a commandline option which would
 > make it call /usr/sbin/sendmail instead of connecting to localhost on
 > port 25 (which is what smtplib.SMTP() does, I believe).  On some
 > (arguably misconfigured, perhaps) systems, this makes a difference.
 > MUA's generally call /usr/sbin/sendmail to sent out mail.  Therefore, I
 > believe it'd be a sane thing for syncmail to do this too (or make it
 > available.)

That's a good idea.  We'd welcome a patch if anyone has time to
implement it.  Alternatively, an issue can be opened in the feature
request tracker:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=450022&group_id=47611&func=browse

Thanks!


  -Fred

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