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

[Klaus J. R. <Kla...@at...>]

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.)

The advantage of smtplib.SMTP is portability -- some platforms, most notably
Windows, do not have a sendmail binary in the default path.  The Perl version
of cvs-syncmail at http://cvs-syncmail-pl.sf.net/, which is based on
cvs-syncmail, has a configuration option for specifying a different SMTP
server, so if you are relaying all messages through a smarthost at your ISP
you can do

    export SMTP_SERVER=myserver
    cvs-syncmail ...

> tried to write a patch, based on these old scripts, but failed.  I'm not
that fluent in python :(  )

Retrofitting the change for allowing different smarthosts to the Python code
should not be too difficult, if you prefer hacking Perl code you have a
ready-to-use solution already (and changing the Net::SMTP call to an external
sendmail call would be easy too if you still want to call sendmail instead).

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